Li Ying used social media to help tell the world about last year’s protests. Now in exile, he has been threatened and lost his livelihood for his defiance. By Li Yuan In November 2022 ...

That account belongs to Li Ying, a Chinese artist turned dissident in Italy who rose to prominence in 2022 for live-tweeting the nationwide protests in China against Xi’s zero-Covid policy.

Every few seconds, Li Ying receives a message on Twitter. University students are demanding transparency from school administrators; workers in Fuzhou are sleeping in tents in an unheated ...

(Sept. 20, 2017) -- Meet Ying Li ’16. This UTSA graduate and professor is giving students a better understanding of the Chinese language and culture. Born and raised in north China, Li was surrounded ...