Haoyue Cecilia Li is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Zhejiang University, China. She is a cultural and environmental sociologist who specializes in environmental journalism, activism, and politics in China. She received her bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Economics from Peking University, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from University at Albany, State University of New York. Her research on news media coverage of China’s smog and food scandals has appeared in journals such as Qualitative Sociology, Journal of Rural Studies and other journals. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Crisis, Legitimation and Contention: China’s Environmental Health Crises in Global Public Spheres, which explores how global media report the public health crisis related to environmental pollution in China, and how environmental journalists in China circumvent press censorship to write critical-oriented news stories. She is also leading a research project on the Chinese social media and the COVID-19 pandemic using big data analysis tools.
