Li Yih-yuan (Chinese: 李亦園; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí E̍k-oân; 20 August 1931 – 18 April 2017) was a Taiwanese anthropologist.
[1][3] Li remained on the faculty until 1999,[1] a year after he had retired from Academia Sinica.
[2] He fell ill with pneumonia in 2017, and died on 18 April that year, aged 85, while seeking treatment at the Taipei Medical University Hospital.
[1][3] The Academia Sinica held a memorial service for Li in September 2017.
[5] Subsequently, in November 2018, the Academia Sinica invited P. Steven Sangren to give the inaugural Li Yih-yuan Memorial Lecture.