Li Lifeng

Li Lifeng is a professor of political science and deputy dean of the School of Government at Nanjing University. He received Ph.D. in modern Chinese history from Nanjing University in 2002. He was once a Harvard-Yenching visiting scholar from 2012 to 2013. Since 2011, he has been the guest professor of the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing Center for American and Chinese Studies. His research covers Chinese politics in 20th century, history of political thoughts, and conceptual history. In recent years, he has been engaged in exploring Chinese communist revolution and its impacts on contemporary China from interdisciplinary perspectives.

Prof. Li is the author or coauthor of Revolutionary Party and Rural Society: The Organizational Structure of the Chinese Communist Party, 1937-45 (2011), A General History of Examination in China,volume 4: Republic China (2004), and dozens of journal papers in Chinese as well as English. He is also the Chinese translator or co-translator of Awakening China: Politics, Culture and Class in the Nationalist Revolution (John Fitzgerald), Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (David Miller), History: A Very Short Introduction (John Arnold), and Crimson Rain: Seven Centuries of Violence in a Chinese County (William Rowe). He teaches “Political Institutions and Thoughts of China,” “Political Sociology”, “History of Chinese Political Institutions,” “Principles of Political Science,” and “Rural Politics in China.”

Contact Details

School of Government

Nanjing University

Add: No.163 Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District, Nanjing, China

Postal code: 210023

Tel: +86-25-89680752

E-mail: llf@nju.edu.cn