Li Xun (1948- ), a scholar of the Cultural Revolution, graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of the Shanghai Adult After-Hours University. From 1979 to 1992, Li worked at the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions. Li has long studied the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai. In 1996, she co-authored and published The Big Downfall: the Rise and Fall of the Shanghai Rebel Workers through the China Times Publishing Company in Taiwan. She was invited by Elizabeth J. Perry, an American scholar on China, to be a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, where she co-authored with Perry an English book, Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution, in 1997. After ten years in the United States, Li returned to China to continued her research on the Cultural Revolution, collecting, reading, and analyzing a large amount of historical materials, conducting in-depth interviews with more than 120 people, which led to the publication of [The Age of Revolutionary Revolt: Historical Manuscripts of the Cultural Revolution Movement in Shanghai](https://shop.oupchina.com.hk/products/%E9%9D%A9%E5%91%BD%E9%80%A0%E5%8F%8D%E5%B9%B4%E4%BB%A3-%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E6%96%87%E9%9D%A9%E9%81%8B%E5%8B%95%E5%8F%B2%E7%A8%BF-%E5%85%A9%E5%8D%B7%E6%9C%AC), through Oxford Press in 2015. The book has been widely praised by the academic community.
