Professor of the School of Journalism and Communication,

Director of Tsinghua University Center for Pakistan Culture and Communication Studies,

Member of Chinese Foreign Ministry Advisory Committee on Public Diplomacy,

Chief Expert of three National Social Science Foundation major projects;

Director of UNESCO-UNAOC UNITWIN Global Chair on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue;

Senior Fellow with CITIC Reform and Development Research Foundation.

Biography

Prof. Li received Quaidi-i-Azam Award in 2009. He has to his credit over 200 rescarch papers, 30 authored or co-authored books. He has supervised 40 PhD students(including 3 Pakistan PHD students) , about 100 Master students.

He is now teaching Four courses on Silk Roads studies:1. Exploring Trans-HinduKush and Karakorum cultures; 2. A study of ancient roads through Pamir-Wakhan; 3. Writing by Trekking on the ancient Silk Roads; 4. From Himalaya to Siberia: an inter-civilization studies .

Li was Young Scholar of UNESCO Silk Roads Project between 1990-1992; Scientific and archaeological writer with the Washingtong Post(1995), head of political desk of the world service department of Xinhua News Agency(1996-1999);Shoreinstein Fellow of Harvard Universiy(1999), Academic visitor to Oxford University (2018, 2023). He was the recipient of UNAIDS Award for outstanding contribution to the prevention of HIV/AIDS in China. Qiaod-I-Aza Award bu Pakistan President.

He had a degree of English language and literature from Nanjing University, a journalism degree from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is a PhD Scholar of Buddhist Archaeology with QAU in Islamabad.