Publications

This is a list of selected publications by Andy Yee on politics, technology, and Asia.

Yee, Andy, and Nikhil Vadgama. “A Hayekian View of Digital Currencies.” Chapter. In Digital Assets: Pricing, Allocation and Regulation, edited by Reena Aggarwal and Paolo Tasca, 104-128. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. (PDF)
Yee, Andy. “Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis of the South China Sea and the East China Sea.” Chapter. In Assessing Maritime Disputes in East Asia: Political and Legal Perspectives, edited by Barthelemy Courmont, Frederic Lasserre and Eric Mottet, 15-36. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2017.

Yee, Andy. “Immortality & A Galactic Future.” Philosophy Now, no. 174 (June / July 2026): 22-25. (PDF)

Yee, Andy. “Innovation integral to China’s techno-industrial transformation.” East Asia Forum Quarterly 16, no. 4 (December 2024): 15-19. (PDF)

Yee, Andy. “Post-Truth Politics and Fake News in Asia.” Global Asia 12, no. 2 (June 2017): 66-71. (PDF)
Yee, Andy. “Digital Asia: An Agenda for Regional Growth and Integration.” Global Asia 9, no. 2 (June 2014): 54-58. (PDF)
Yee, Andy. “For the Internet Age, Taiwan’s ICT Industry Needs a New Model.” Global Asia 8, no. 4 (December 2013): 66-73. (PDF)
Yee, Andy. “When Will Japan Tap Its Internet Potential?.” Global Asia 8, no. 1 (March 2013): 80-85. (PDF)
Yee, Andy. “An Asian Community Will Emerge From Existing Structures.” Global Asia 4, no. 3 (September 2009): 46-49. (PDF)

Yee, Andy. “Asia’s Payments Revolution.” Cutter Business Technology Journal 29, no. 11 (November 2016): 29-31. (PDF)

Yee, Andy. “The Coming Battle Over Bitcoin Governance.” Oxford Business Law Blog, December 21, 2021.
Yee, Andy. “China Makes Global Media Push, But Skeptics Abound.” MediaShift, April 19, 2011.
Yee, Andy. “The Cold War Origin of Asia’s Troubled Waters.” Asia Sentinel, November 24, 2010.
Yee, Andy. “Sino-Japan relations: The dangers of tit for tat.” South China Morning Post, September 30, 2010. (PDF)

Yee, Andy. “De-Dollarization in the Age of Blockchain and Digital Currencies.” AsiaGlobal Online, May 11, 2023.
Yee, Andy. “The Metaverse in a Fragmented World.” AsiaGlobal Online, September 1, 2022.
Yee, Andy. “The Geography of Digital Money.” AsiaGlobal Online, April 14, 2022.
Yee, Andy. “Blockchain in China: Tussle Between Control and Openness.” AsiaGlobal Online, March 22, 2018.
Yee, Andy. “Beyond the US-China Race for Geotechnological Supremacy.” AsiaGlobal Online, February 1, 2018.

Yee, Andy. “Blockchain can lift Asian trade over gaps in trust.” Nikkei Asian Review, July 13, 2017.
Yee, Andy. “What big data can do for Chinese governance.” Nikkei Asian Review, April 5, 2017.
Yee, Andy. “Asia needs a policy framework to govern AI technology.” Nikkei Asian Review, February 15, 2017.
Yee, Andy. “Japanese companies not yet prepared for next tech wave.” Nikkei Asian Review, April 21, 2016. (PDF)
Yee, Andy. “The need to tame Internet finance in China.” Nikkei Asian Review, March 7, 2016.
Yee, Andy. “Hong Kong, Singapore unlocking their fintech potential.” Nikkei Asian Review, November 20, 2015.
Yee, Andy. “How technology and finance can get along.” Nikkei Asian Review, October 13, 2015. (PDF)

Yee, Andy. “The twin faces of Japanese nationalism.” East Asia Forum, September 25, 2013.
Yee, Andy. “Technology and culture to drive East Asia’s next digital revolution.” East Asia Forum, May 9, 2012.
Yee, Andy. “International cyber war: limits and possibilities.” East Asia Forum, March 14, 2012.
Yee, Andy. “US deployment of littoral combat ships to Singapore.” East Asia Forum, July 21, 2011.
Yee, Andy. “Autocratic peace and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.” East Asia Forum, May 11, 2011.

Yee, Andy. “Content creation in the age of the mobile internet.” openDemocracy, May 30, 2014.
Yee, Andy. “The internet and Tolstoy’s vision of history.” openDemocracy, November 7, 2012.
Yee, Andy. “Revolt of the meritocrats.” openDemocracy, January 3, 2012.
Yee, Andy. “Where does the west stand on global freedom of expression?” openDemocracy, March 14, 2011.
Yee, Andy. “China rising: what would Mackinder do?” openDemocracy, August 6, 2010.
Yee, Andy. “A brave new world?” openDemocracy, January 5, 2010.

Yee, Andy. “How Social Commerce Tightens China’s Grip on the Internet.” Global Voices Online, May 22, 2013.
Yee, Andy. “Taiwan: Democracy with a Confucian Face?” Global Voices Online, July 2, 2012.
Yee, Andy. “Hong Kong Rethinks its Relationship with Mainland China.” Global Voices Online, January 24, 2012.
Yee, Andy. “China: Writing Imaginary Book Reviews.” Global Voices Online, May 22, 2011.
Yee, Andy. “China: Ran Yunfei’s Blogging for Political Change.” Global Voices Online, April 9, 2011.
Yee, Andy. “China: The coming of age of Political Confucianism?” Global Voices Online, February 5, 2011.

Yee, Andy. “The Tea Drinkers’ Guide.” ChinaGeeks, May 10, 2012.
Yee, Andy. “What Lu Xun can teach us about modern-day China.” ChinaGeeks, October 2, 2011.
Yee, Andy. “Mo Zhixu on the Crackdown of the Southern Media Group.” ChinaGeeks, February 18, 2011.
Yee, Andy. “Stability Preservation in China.” ChinaGeeks, April 10, 2010.

Higgins, Stan. “Google Analyst: Bitcoin Could Be ‘The Internet of Money’.” CoinDesk, September 3, 2014.
Wheatley, Alan. “Asian Style.” Finance & Development 51, no. 2 (June 2014): 14-17.
Branigan, Tania. “Ai Weiwei hits out at treatment of friends and activists.” The Guardian, August 9, 2011.
VPRO. “What does China think?” Tegenlicht, March 25, 2011.
Itzkoff, Dave. “China Sees ‘Avatar’ (and Criticizes It, Too).” The New York Times, January 11, 2010.