Background
Mr. Li was born in Yingcheng, Hubei, China, 1890.
Mr. Li was born in Yingcheng, Hubei, China, 1890.
Li Fan-yi graduated from the Columbia University.
Mr. Li served as a director of the Communications Department of the Headquarters of the commander-in-chief of the Nationalist Revolutionary Army, Navy and Air Force. He also held the posts of the president of the National Chiao Tung University, president of the School of Army Communication attached to the Military Affairs Commission, director of the Radio Administration and of the Radio Manufactory of the National Reconstruction Commission, commissioner of Reconstructon of the Anhui Provincial Government.
Later he was appointed commissioner of Education of the Shaanxi Provincial Government and director of the Department of Telegraphic Administration of the Ministry of Communications. Then Mr. Li acted as a commissioner of Reconstruction of the Hubei Provincial Government, which post he resigned in spring 1935.