Li Zehou

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Li.

Li Zehou
Born	(1930-06-13)13 June 1930 Daolin, Ningxiang County, Hunan, China
Died	2 November 2021(2021-11-02) (aged 91) Boulder, Colorado, United States
Other names	Z.H. Li
Alma mater	Hunan First Normal University Peking University
Occupation(s)	Historian, writer
Years active	1954–2021
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	李澤厚
Simplified Chinese	李泽厚
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lǐ Zéhòu

Li Zehou (13 June 1930 – 2 November 2021) was a Chinese scholar who lives in the United States. He was an important scholar of Chinese history and culture. He criticized the Chinese government's response to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Because of that, his books and articles were banned in China. He was invited to the United States to teach. He was granted permanent resident status. Li had an important role in Chinese culture. Professor Yu Ying-shih of Princeton University wrote that Li's books helped a whole generation of young Chinese students become free from communist ideas.

Li died on 2 November 2021, aged 91.

Books

• The Path of Beauty: A Study of Chinese Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, 1988

Related pages

• List of Chinese dissidents
• Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Peace Prize winning scholar who has criticized Li's work as a scholar.

Other websites

• "Modernization and the Confucian World", Colorado College's 125th Anniversary Symposium on Cultures in the 21st Century: Conflicts and Convergences, address given February 5, 1999 Archived September 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
• "Li Zehou And The Marxist Reconstruction Of Confucianism", High Culture Fever, UC Press Ebooks