Cyrus (Ki Yip) Yee, PhD

Dr. Cyrus Yee is currently teaching courses in Leadership at Trinity Western University.

He received his Ph.D. in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He also holds three M.A. degrees: in Leadership, Comparative and Public History, and Literary and Cultural Studies, and an M.Phil. in History from Trinity Western University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and The University of Hong Kong, respectively. 

Previously, he also worked as an Associate Research Fellow in History at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.

Dr. Yee has also lectured at Simon Fraser University, The University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong polytechnic University prior to his current appointment.

His key publications include “Han Migrant Farmers in Qing Inner Mongolia: Reluctant Pioneers or Human Great Wall?” (2017) and “Wither Mongolian Consciousness? Or, Ethnic Politics in Mongolia in the Early 20th Century” (2019).

• School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Doctor of Philosophy in History
• Trinity Western University, Master of Arts in Leadership (General Stream)
• The University of Hong Kong, Master of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Philosophy in History
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Arts in Comparative and Public History

Expertise

Leadership theory, China’s frontier studies, History of the Mongol Empire and Yuan dynasty, History of Modern China, History of Taiwan and Cross-Strait Relations, History of China’s foreign relations, Comparative study of Chinese and Western Cultures

• LDRS 410 Persuasion and Positive Influences
• LDRS 490 Leading in the World