The 1990s, Beijing

General Education, Writing Education, Peer Education; Contemporary Cultural and Intellectual History, Critical Theory

2014–2019: Ph.D. in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Peking University

2016–2017: Visiting Scholar (China Scholarship Council), Department of Comparative Literature, New York University

2010–2014: B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University

2025–Present: Associate Professor & Director, Teaching Center for Writing and Communication (TCWC), Tsinghua University

2024–2025: Associate Professor & Deputy Director, TCWC, Tsinghua University; Secretary of the Center’s Party Branch

2022–2023: Lecturer & Deputy Director, TCWC, Tsinghua University; Secretary of the Center’s Party Branch

2021–2022: Lecturer & Deputy Director, TCWC, Tsinghua University

2019–2021: Full-time Instructor, TCWC, Tsinghua University; Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, Tsinghua University; Core Member and Assistant Director of the TCWC

Advisor, Tsinghua University Student Writing Association

Second Prize, National Teaching Achievement Award in Higher Education (Undergraduate) (2022, 8th of 10 recipients)

Second Prize, 13th Beijing University Young Faculty Basic Teaching Skills Competition (Humanities Category) (2023)

Tsinghua University Model Teacher for Ideological and Political Education (2023)

Tsinghua University Model Course for Ideological and Political Education: Writing and Communication – The 1990s (2023)

First Prize, Beijing Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award (2021, 8th of 10 recipients)

First Prize, Tsinghua University Teaching Achievement Award (2025, 5th of 10 recipients)

Tsinghua University Annual Excellence in Teaching Award (2024) (awarded in 2025)

First Prize, 10th Tsinghua University Young Faculty Teaching Competition (Humanities Group) (2022)

Tsinghua University Excellent Course: Writing and Communication – The 1990s (2022)

Tsinghua University Annual Excellence in Teaching Award (2021) (awarded in 2022)

Second Prize, General Education Research Paper Award, Federation for General Education (2022)

Academic Research

Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukács. Aesthetics and Politics. Translated by Xie Jun and Li Yinan. Xi’an: Northwest University Press, 2024.

Li Yinan. Competency Development and the ‘Unity of Knowledge and Action’ in Writing Course Assignment Design. In Walking in the Same Direction: A Collection of Teaching Cases for Ideological and Political Education at Tsinghua University, edited by Peng Gang, pp. 146–158. Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2024.

Li Yinan. The Birth of “Serious Historical Drama”: The 1990s and the Historical Politics of Yongzheng Dynasty. Modern Chinese Literature Studies, Issue 2, 2023.

Li Yinan. From Knowledge to Consciousness: Dilemmas and Reflections on University-Level History General Education Courses. History Teaching, Issue 10, 2022.

Li Yinan. The Interpretation and Practice of Tsinghua’s General Education Concept through “Thematic” Writing Courses. Thematic Symposium Report at the 4th National University Writing Course Symposium, Beijing, 2023.

Mei Ciqi (ed.). Teaching Case Studies on Tsinghua Writing and Communication Courses. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2022. (Editorial Board Member)

Li Yinan. Activating Students’ “Active Learning” in General Education Writing Courses: An Exploration Based on Tsinghua’s General Education Writing Courses. General Education Review (Vol. 10), Issue 2, 2022.

Li Yinan. Stimulating Peer Learning Potential: Concepts and Practices of Deep Engagement in Tsinghua’s “Writing and Communication” Course. In Teaching Case Studies on Tsinghua Writing and Communication Courses, edited by Mei Ciqi, pp. 36–45. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2022.

Li Yinan. Scientific ‘Representation’: Reexamining the Lukács–Brecht Debate from the Ambiguity of “Science”. Theory and Criticism of Literature and Art, Issue 3, 2021.

Li Yinan. Reexamining the Value of “Writing” in General Education: A Case Study of Tsinghua University’s “Writing and Communication” Course. Writing Research Forum at the 3rd Tsinghua University Writing Course Teaching Symposium, Beijing, 2020.

Li Yinan. The Fracture of History and the Bridging of Narrative: Wang Anyi’s Uncle’s Story and Intellectual Narrative in the Early 1990s. Journal of Yantai University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), Issue 6, 2019.

Li Yinan. A “New World” and “New Discovery”: Edgar Snow’s Red Star Over China and Its Transcendence of Orientalism and Traditional Landscape Theory. Masterpieces Review, Issue 3, 2019.

Fredric Jameson. Reflections on the Brecht–Lukács Debate. Translated by Li Yinan. Marxist Literary Studies, Issue 2, 2018.

Li Yinan. The Politics, Possibility, and Truth Stance of “Declaration”: On Politics and “Non-Aesthetics” in Badiou’s Discourse Practice. International Aesthetics, Issue 1, 2016.

Research Projects

Principal Investigator: Tsinghua University Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project (2024) – “Evaluation of the Long-Term ‘Three-in-One’ Educational Effectiveness of General Education Writing Courses in the Digital Intelligence Era.”

Principal Investigator: Tsinghua University Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project (2023) – “Textbook Development for the General Education Writing Course ‘Writing and Communication’.”

Principal Investigator: Later-Stage Funding Project of the National Social Science Fund (2022) – “The‘Representation’of the Collective: Chinese TV Series (1998–2008).”

Principal Investigator: Tsinghua University Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project (2022) – “The Role and Development Approach of Extracurricular Peer Tutoring Platforms in Writing Instruction.”

Principal Investigator: Tsinghua University Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project (2020) – “The Role of Writing Practice in Fostering ‘Active Learning’.”

Principal Investigator: Special Teaching Reform Project for Ideological and Political Education, Tsinghua University (2020) – “Establishing a Personalized Pathway Connecting the Individual and the Collective: Ideological and Political Education Based on the Characteristics of Writing Practice.”

Participant (Executive Lead): Tsinghua University Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project (2021) – “Exploration and Practice of the General Education Concept in Thematic Writing Courses.”

Participant: Tsinghua University Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project (2021) – “‘Multi-Dimensional, Whole-Process, Systematic’ Portfolio Construction and Review for Small-Class General Education Courses: A Case Study of Writing and Communication Courses.”

Participant: Tsinghua University Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project (2020) – “Research on ‘Process Writing’ Pedagogy.”

Participant: Tsinghua University Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project (2020) – “Compilation and Publication of a Teaching Casebook for Error Corrections in Student Works from the ‘Writing and Communication’ Course.”

Participant: Tsinghua University Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project (2020) – “Exploring the Construction of a ‘Collaborative and Research-Oriented’ Teaching Team at TCWC.”