By Dr Yao-Tai Li

Books

Li Y-T; Whitworth K, 2025, Protest Walls Co-authoring Contentious Repertoires, Cambridge University Press, https://www.cambridge.org/au/universitypress/subjects/sociology/political-sociology/protest-walls-co-authoring-contentious-repertoires

Book Chapters

Li Y-T, 2024, 'Open Access: Sometimes “Us”, Other Times “Others”: Identity Politics within Chinese Voluntary Associations in Australia', in Diasporic Chinese Voluntary Associations in Transition, Routledge, pp. 36 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003596059-3

Li Y-T; Whitworth K, 2024, 'Coordinating and doxing data: Hong Kong protesters' and government supporters' data strategies in the age of datafication', in Contentious Data in Movement, Routledge, pp. 96 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003541028-7

Journal articles

Chien YC; Liu JCE; Li YT, 2026, '“Covid refugees” in Taiwan: Identity, aspiration, and friction in diasporic return', Migration Studies, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnag034

Yuen S; Li Y-T, 2026, 'Cold feet on foreign soil? How repressive threats shape migrants’ political engagement', Comparative Migration Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40878-026-00561-4

Liu JCE; Chiang SN; Li YT, 2026, '“Not traditionally Asian”: boba shops and the dialectics of pan-Asian identity', Food Culture and Society, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2026.2715779

Li YT; Thet MM, 2026, 'Angry Posts: Myanmar’s Anti-Military Rhetoric on the Internet', International Journal of Communication, 20, pp. 1100 - 1123, http://dx.doi.org/10.65476/sa27rp67

Li YT, 2026, 'Immobility–mobility nexus: the opportunities and challenges of the Australian COVID-19 visa for temporary migrant workers', Mobilities, ahead-of-print, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2026.2638565

Li YT, 2026, 'Navigating Double Decolonization: Mainland Chinese Immigrants' Re-Emphasis or Concealment of Chineseness in Hong Kong', Nations and Nationalism, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nana.70081

Li Y-T, 2026, 'The Making of Leaderful Mobilization: Power and Contention in Hong Kong ChengEdmund W.YuenSamson. 2025. The Making of Leaderful Mobilization: Power and Contention in Hong Kong. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 310 pp. ISBN: 9781009445856.', Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 55, pp. 324 - 326, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00943061261452802f

Li YT, 2025, 'Digital Organizers in Hong Kong: The Challenges of Movement Organizing Through Social Media Amid Democratic Backsliding', Social Media and Society, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20563051251337205

Li YT; Liao BJ, 2025, 'An “Unsettling” Journey? Hong Kong’s Exodus to Taiwan and Australia After the 2019 Protests', American Behavioral Scientist, 69, pp. 339 - 357, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00027642231192025

Li YT, 2025, '‘Black self-serve’: the depreciation of blackness and racialized vision among Taiwanese netizens', Information Communication and Society, 28, pp. 1779 - 1798, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2346542

Li YT, 2025, 'Familiar strangers? Mainland Chinese immigrants navigating racial capital in Hong Kong', Third World Quarterly, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2520047

Li YT, 2025, 'From patriotic nationals to critical citizens? The A4 Movement and the change in long-distance nationalism among overseas PRC-Chinese', Space and Polity, 29, pp. 1 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2025.2511951

Li YT; Whitworth K, 2025, 'Mobilising Behind Trump for Democracy: The Case of Hong Kong', Geopolitics, 30, pp. 1256 - 1280, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.2419464

Li YT; Cheng M; Mkono M, 2024, 'Information Diffusion or Deviation? An Exponential Random Graph Model of Activism Against Discrimination on Airbnb', Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, 48, pp. 1253 - 1266, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10963480221143911

Li YT, 2024, 'Integration Based on Socio-economic Status? Everyday Interactions and Boundary (Un)making Between Mainland Skilled Professionals and Locals in Hong Kong', International Migration Review, 58, pp. 1410 - 1433, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01979183231171553

Li YT, 2024, 'Digital togetherness as everyday resistance: The use of new media in addressing work exploitation in rural areas', New Media and Society, 26, pp. 1851 - 1870, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614448221080717

Li YT; Chen ML; Lee HW, 2024, 'Health communication on social media at the early stage of the pandemic: Examining health professionals’ COVID-19 related tweets', Social Science and Medicine, 347, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116748

Li YT; Whitworth K, 2024, 'Coordinating and doxing data: Hong Kong protesters’ and government supporters’ data strategies in the age of datafication', Social Movement Studies, 23, pp. 355 - 372, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2023.2178404

Li YT, 2024, 'Sometimes “us”, other times “others”: identity politics within Chinese voluntary associations in Australia', Ethnic and Racial Studies, 47, pp. 3488 - 3511, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2363531

Li YT; Whitworth K, 2023, 'Data as a Weapon: The Evolution of Hong Kong Protesters’ Doxing Strategies', Social Science Computer Review, 41, pp. 1650 - 1670, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08944393221111240

Li YT; Whitworth K, 2023, 'Redefining consumer nationalism: The ambiguities of shopping yellow during the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-ELAB movement', Journal of Consumer Culture, 23, pp. 517 - 535, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14695405221127346

Whitworth K; Li YT, 2023, 'Visual Framing: The Use of COVID-19 in the Mobilization of Hong Kong Protest', China Quarterly, 253, pp. 19 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305741022001564

Li YT, 2023, 'Taiwan and the WHO: negotiating the deconstruction of racialized discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic', International Affairs, 99, pp. 321 - 336, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac313

Ho MS; Li YT, 2023, '‘I became a Taiwanese after I left Taiwan’: identity shift among young immigrants in the United States', Identities, 30, pp. 237 - 256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2022.2109859

Li YT; Whitworth K, 2023, 'Contentious Repertoires: Examining Lennon Walls in Hong Kong’s Social Unrest of 2019', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 53, pp. 124 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2022.2032277

Li YT; Whitworth K, 2023, 'The right to information or data sovereignty? Sending unsolicited messages to Russians about the war in Ukraine', Big Data and Society, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20539517231156123

Li Y-T, 2023, 'Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employer Associations, and Reform in Neoliberal Chile', BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, 61, pp. 984 - 986, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12768

Li YT; Whitworth K, 2022, 'Reclaiming Hong Kong through neighbourhood-making: A study of the 2019 Anti-ELAB movement', Urban Studies, 59, pp. 1372 - 1388, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00420980211014448

Li YT; Fung KY, 2022, 'Donating to the fight for democracy: The connective activism of overseas Hong Kongers and Taiwanese in the 2019 Anti-extradition bill movement', Global Networks, 22, pp. 292 - 307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/glob.12345

Li Y-T, 2022, '[Book review] Taiwan: Manipulation of Ideology and Struggle for Identity', International Journal of Taiwan Studies, 5, pp. 203 - 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24688800-20211253

Li YT, 2022, 'How important is English, Mandarin, and Cantonese for getting a job? Exploring employers’ perceptions of linguistic capital in Hong Kong', Chinese Sociological Review, 54, pp. 155 - 177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2021.1964948

Li YT, 2021, 'Asymmetrical understandings of the value of time between Taiwanese Working Holiday Makers and the Australian government: Cultural exchange or serving time?', Sociological Review, 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380261211062303

Li Y-T, 2021, '[Book review] Upsetting food: Three eras of food protests in the United States', Journal of Consumer Culture, pp. 146954052110499 - 146954052110499, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14695405211049925

Li YT, 2021, 'One person, three identities? Examining re-politicization of ethnic, national, and Australian identities among 1.5-generation Taiwanese immigrants in Australia', Journal of Sociology, 57, pp. 541 - 558, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783320934157

Li Y-T, 2021, '[Book review] The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture', Sociology, pp. 003803852110356 - 003803852110356, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380385211035606

Li Y-T; Ng J, 2021, 'Moral Dilemma of Striking: A Medical Worker’s Response to Job Duty, Public Health Protection and the Politicization of Strikes', Work, Employment and Society, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017020981554

Li YT, 2021, 'Accounting for “the social” in contact tracing applications: The paradox between public health governance and mistrust of government's data use', Big Data and Society, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20539517211054277

Ho JM; Li YT; Whitworth K, 2021, 'Unequal discourses: Problems of the current model of world health development', World Development, 137, pp. 105176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105176

Li Y-T; Liu JC-E, 2021, '“Hong Kong, Add Oil!”: The Lennon Walls in the 2019 Hong Kong Movement', Contexts, 20, pp. 68 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1536504221997878

Li Y-T; Liu JC-E, 2021, 'Auditing ethnic preference in Hong Kong’s financial job market: The mediation of white privilege and Hong Kong localism', International Sociology, 36, pp. 71 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0268580920957801

Li YT, 2020, '“I was discriminated against because I was seen as PRC-Chinese”: The negotiation between ethnicity and nationalism among Taiwanese migrants in Australia', British Journal of Sociology, 71, pp. 1016 - 1030, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12786

Li YT; Song Y, 2020, 'Taiwan as ghost island? Ambivalent articulation of marginalized identities in computer-mediated discourses', Discourse and Society, 31, pp. 285 - 306, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926519889124

Li YT, 2020, 'Disharmonious Chinese ethnic business: intergroup stereotypes among Chinese migrant employees in Australia', Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43, pp. 732 - 750, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2019.1599132

Li YT, 2019, '“It’s Not Discrimination”: Chinese Migrant Workers’ Perceptions of and Reactions to Racial Microaggressions in Australia', Sociological Perspectives, 62, pp. 554 - 571, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0731121419826583

Li Y-T, 2018, 'Maintaining transnational ties and the convertibility of working holiday makers’ experiences in Australia', Current Sociology, 68, pp. 316 - 332, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392118811003

Li Y-T, 2018, 'Mobilizing without the masses: control and contention in China', SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES, 17, pp. 631 - 633, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2018.1482208

Li Y-T, 2017, 'Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification', CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY, 11, pp. 540 - 542, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975517731079c

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