Editing Li Ao (section)

==Early life and education==
Li was born in [[Harbin]], [[Manchukuo]] to Li Dingyi ([[:zh:李鼎彝|李鼎彝]]), a professor of Chinese, and Zhang Kuichen ({{lang|zh-hant|張桂貞}}).<ref name="wencui"/> His family had ancestry in [[Weifang|Wei County]] (modern-day Weifang), [[Shandong]] Province, and [[Fuyu County, Jilin|Fuyu County]], [[Jilin]] Province. When Li was two years old, the family moved to [[Beijing]], where Li's father worked in the government's opium suppression bureau.<ref name=NYTobit>{{cite news|last1=Qin|first1=Amy|title=Li Ao, Writer and Political Firebrand in Taiwan, Dies at 82|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/obituaries/li-ao-taiwanese-dissident-who-fought-martial-law-dies-at-82.html|access-date=30 March 2018|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=26 March 2018}}</ref>

There, Li's father was accused of being a traitor to the Kuomintang by his superiors.<ref name="NYTobit" /> Li then began feeling enmity towards the party.<ref name="NYTobit" /> The entire Li family, except for two children, moved to Taiwan at the end of the [[Chinese Civil War]] in 1949.<ref name="wencui" /> Li received his bachelor's degree in history from [[National Taiwan University]] (NTU) in 1959.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Hwang |first=Jim |url=http://taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=489&ctNode=2198&mp=9 |title=Li Ao (New Party): Exposing the Dark Side |journal=Free China Review |publisher=Taiwan Today |date=1 March 2000 |access-date=September 17, 2015}}</ref> In 1963, he earned a master's degree in history from NTU. As a graduate student, he was the executive editor of the magazine ''Wenxing''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Who's Who in the ROC |url=http://www.ey.gov.tw/en/Upload/WebArchive/4695/Who's%20Who%20in%20the%20ROC.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020105104/http://www.ey.gov.tw/en/Upload/WebArchive/4695/Who%27s%20Who%20in%20the%20ROC.pdf |archivedate=20 October 2016 |accessdate=5 May 2016 |page=408 |pages= |agency=Executive Yuan}}</ref>