Background
Li Ling was born in Xingtai, Hebei in 1948, whose original family home located in Wuxiang County, Shanxi, has grown up in Beijing.
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Career
He worked in Shanxi and Inner Mongolia for 7 years as a sent-down youth after graduation from high school. He came back to Beijing in 1975, and was enrolled into the Institute of Archaeology (Iowa) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (the institute later became part of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, CASS), working on the research of inscriptions on bronze under the supervision of Zhang Zhengliang. He graduated with a master"s degree in History in 1982.
He joined the Bangxi Branch of Archaeological Team of Iowa CASS between 1982 and 1983.
He worked on research of history of agricultural institution of Pre-Qin, in Research Center for Agricultural Economy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Since 1985 he has been professor of Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University.
