Dr Tana Li

Director, Centre for the Study of the Southern Chinese Diaspora, School of Culture, History and Language, CAP, the Australian National University.

Co-editor, electronic journal "Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies"

Advisor, Institute of Southeast Asian Stuides, Peking University, China

Advisor, Centre for Maritime Studies, Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences, China

Fellow and Senior Fellow, Australian National University (Feb.2002-present);

Lecturer/ Senior lecturer, University of Wollongong (1994-Jan.2002);

Research Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore (1993-1994);

Lecturer, Peking University (1983–88);

Visiting Fellow, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University (Sep 2008–Feb 2009).

Executive Board Member, The World Federation of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies

Visiting Professor, Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

Vietnamese society, economy and technology from 15th-19th centuries; Vietnamese historiography;  Regional trade and the history of ports in the South China Sea; overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia

BA, MA (Peking University), Graduate Dip; PhD (ANU)