Name: LOW SHIANG YII
Position：Assistant Professor
Research Field：Island and Maritime Cultures, Ethnicity and politics
Academic Expertise: Cultural anthropology, Malaysian studies
Office: Room 206, Nan’an Building
Email: xiangyi@xmu.edu.cn
Education Background:
• Ph.D. in Law, Peking University
• Master in Education, Tianjin University
• Bachelor of Arts, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Research Projects:
• Participated in the research project of "Tianjin Huanghui", it’s a project commissioned by the National Social Science Fund (Cultural Heritage Research, Volume 2).
• Contributed significantly to the authorship of "Oral History Research Series of Heritage Bearers: Oral History of Cloth Tiger," published by Tianjin University Press on September 1, 2020.
• 2018, led the Tianjin’s intangible cultural heritage census (folk literature) commissioned by the Tianjin Intangible Cultural Heritage Center
• 2018, actively participated in the training and research program for inheritors of Chinese intangible cultural heritage, organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
• Engaged in research and writing for the project "Tianjin Huanghui" commissioned by the National Social Science Fund (Project No: YXZ2016017).
• 2017, contributed to the National Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development's project on the establishment of digital museums for traditional villages. Conducted on-site research in Yansha Village and Heyang Village in Jinyun, Zhejiang province.
Journal Articles:
1. Low Shiang Yii, Gao Bingzhong, 2023. “The interrelations Between global Mobility and local Organization: A case study of Marine Fisheries in Pangkor island”, Journal of Hubei Minzu University (Philosophy and Social Science). Volume 41, issue 3.
2. Low Shiang Yii, 2022. “The God-bound Transition of a Mortal: Ancestor and God Veneration by ethnic Chinese Malaysian”, Malaysian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 11, issue 2.
3. Low Shiang Yii, 2021. “The Marine Economy of East coast Malaya in the 1940s – Review of Raymond Firth ‘The Malay Fishermen’”, XueWen, Volume 2.
4. Low Shiang Yii, Ma Zhiyao,2018. “Opportunities and Challengers in the Development of Study in China under the Belt and Road intiative”, Ethno-National Studies in Gansu, Volume 2.
