Hugo Wei Li Hugo 李炜

I research how progressive educational ideas travelled, were received, and were remade in early Republican China—with particular attention to mid-level teachers, professional networks, and the micro-politics of reform.

我研究进步教育思想如何在民初中国跨国流动、被接受并被再造——尤其关注中层教师、专业网络,以及教育改革的微观政治。

Dissertation

博士论文

Doctoral thesis cover: Winds of Educational Changes — Hugo Wei Li

Winds of Educational Changes: Shu Xincheng, the Transnational Reception of the Dalton Plan, and Educational Reform in Early Republican China, 1919–1925.

教育变革之风:舒新城、道尔顿制的跨国接受与民初教育改革(1919–1925)

The dissertation follows Shu Xincheng (舒新城) to examine how progressive education—especially the Dalton Plan—was received transnationally and enacted in local reform practice between 1919 and 1925.

论文以舒新城为线索,考察 1919–1925 年间进步教育(尤其是道尔顿制)如何被跨国接受,并进入地方改革实践。

Supervisors: Prof. Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde and Prof. Pieter Verstraete (KU Leuven).

导师:Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde 教授、Pieter Verstraete 教授(鲁汶大学)。

Keywords & themes

关键词与主题

  • Transnational history of education reform
  • Mid-level individual teacher development
  • Teacher’s professional network and community
  • Micro-politics of educational reform
  • Trends of “new” media technology
  • 教育改革的跨国史
  • 中层教师个体发展
  • 教师专业网络与社群
  • 教育改革的微观政治
  • 「新媒体」技术趋势

Selected publications

代表出版

2026
From Idealism to Efficiency… — Paedagogica Historica
2025
2026
Marginalized Brokers of Reform? Transnational Knowledge Circulation and the Micropolitics of Progressive Educational Reform in 1920s China 《边缘的改革中介?》——1920 年代中国进步教育改革中的跨国知识流动与微观政治 — History of Intellectual Culture (De Gruyter, forthcoming)

Full writing list → 完整写作列表 →

ORCID: ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3880-0057