Ms Kunruonan

is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Africa Policy Institute's China-Africa Center. In addition, Li holds the positions of Lecturer in Swahili at Communication University of China (CUC) and Associate Head of the Department of Asian-African Languages at the School of International Studies. She is a visiting scholar at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and a member of the Council of the China Association of Less-Commonly-Taught Languages.

Li has translated several books throughout the years, such as Mister God, this is Anna (100,000 words, English to Chinese), Adili na Nduguze (30,000 words, Swahili to Chinese), and Secret Lives (109,000 words, English to Chinese, written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o). She is a doctoral candidate at Peking University, where she studies Oriental Folk Literature.