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Hongtao Li

Associate Professor
Email: 
lihongtao@zju.edu.cn
Office: 
Room 547, the Academic Building, Xixi Campus
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On sabbatical leave
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Dr. Hongtao Li (李红涛) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism & Communication and a Distinguished Young Scholar at Zhejiang University. He received his Ph.D. in Communication from City University of Hong Kong in February 2010. His research interests include air pollution and environmental politics, international communication, sociology of news, media and collective memory. He has published in a number of journals including China Quarterly, Communication and the Public, Media, Culture & Society, International Journal of Press/Politics, Asian Journal of Communication, Chinese Journal of Communication, etc.


PhD City University of Hong Kong

M.D Sichuan University

B.A The Southwest University of Political Science and Law


Media sociology, cultural memory, international communication

1.Hongtao Li and Rune Svarverud (accepted for publication). When London Hit the Headlines: Historical Analogy and the Chinese Media Discourse on Air Pollution, The China Quarterly. 

2.Hongtao Li (2016). “The Days When Ideals Shined”: Journalistic Nostalgia and the Myth of Golden Age in China, Communication and the Public, 1 (4): 452-470.

3.Hongtao LI and Chin-Chuan Lee (2014). Guanxi Networks and the Gatekeeping Practices of Communication Journals in China, Chinese Journal of Communication,7: 4, 355-372. 

4.Hongtao LI and Chin-Chuan Lee (2013). Remembering Tiananmen and Berlin Wall: The Elite U.S. Press’s Anniversary Journalism, 1990-2009, Media, Culture & Society,35 (7): 830-846.

5.Hongtao LI (2011). Anonymous Review as Strategic Ritual: Examining the Rise of Anonymous Review among Mainland Chinese Communication Journals, Asian Journal of Communication. 21 (6): 595-612.

6.Chin-Chuan Lee, Hongtao Li, and Francis L.F. Lee (2011). Symbolic Use of Decisive Events: Tiananmen as a News Icon in the editorials of the Elite U.S. Press, International Journal of Press/Politics, 16 (3): 335-356. 


1.National Social Science Foundation project: Negotiating the National with the Local: Hong Kong Media’s Portrayal of Mainland China before and after the Handover (principal investigator)

2.Ministry of Education Project: Remembering to Forget: Nanjing Atrocity as Cultural Trauma in Contemporary China (principal investigator)

3.Norwegian Research Council Grant: Airborne: Pollution, Climate Change, and Visions of Sustainability in China (member)


Social Science Research Methods