Peter Li
PhD, Associate Professor at University of Houston-Downtown, Dr. Peter Li’s focus is East Asian Politics, U.S. Foreign Policy, Politics and Animal Rights, and Contemporary China. His research focuses on China’s animal welfare policies, animal protection movements at a time of rapid social transformation. He has published widely on political and institutional challenges of China’s wildlife protection and the obstacles to law enforcement against wildlife trafficking and wildlife use in culture/politics and the political and institutional obstacles to wildlife farming, wildlife law enforcement, animal agriculture and food security; companion animal protection and human-animal relations. “From SARS to the Wuhan Coronavirus” published in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak as well as “China’s tug-of-war over rhino and tiger protection” describe the remaining obstacles to the protection of China’s wildlife. His book “Animal Welfare in China: Crisis and Politics Development” is forthcoming
