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Her father was the president of Zhengzhou University. Li Xiaojiang's first concern was with the phrase "women." She wanted to eliminate the regular word which was tied up with cultural baggage, so she recommended nuren, which is a combination of human and female. The new word is void of the cultural baggage of the old word. Li’s idea of women’s liberation involved personal fulfillment which couldn't be given to you from outside, which was a problem of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The revolution declared it had freed everyone, men and women alike, but Li didn't agree, believing that if women didn't free themselves it showed them as powerless. She also believed that the Cultural Revolution and Social Constructionism ignored the biological differences between men and women.

As a teacher she taught Chinese and western literature at Zhengzhou University, as well as at the Women's Studies Center at Henan University in the city of Kaifeng. Both universities are in the Henan Province. At Henan University she founded the Enlightenment series at the Henan People’s Press. She also established a Women’s Studies program at Zhengzhou University. In May 1985 she organized a class on women and domestic policy and lectured on the topic of women’s self-recognition at the Women Cadres School, also in the Henan Province. The reestablishing of Women's Education Programs soon spread throughout the country. In 1990 Li Xiaojiang organized another women’s conference, this time in Zhengzhou.

Using her experiences of interviewing female revolutionaries and ordinary women during the Chinese Communist Party's early years, Li held a seminar at Columbia University about how Marxists and Maoist ideologies promoted political equality for women. An example is Chairman Mao's "Women hold up half the sky" quote to promote the idea that women should be considered just as good as men. However, in politics and in the employment sector, women did not and do not have as prominent a position as men. And, because of China’s political and cultural background, even while Chinese feminists are globally linked, they face different opportunities and challenges from their Western counterparts.

Li Xiaojiang took up an independent feminist viewpoint based on her Marxist background that did not align with the state's position on women's liberation. Like many Chinese feminists, Li usually does not call herself a feminist, both because of the state, and to distance her point of view from Western feminism. She speaks out against Western feminism, which is not always relevant to Chinese women’s situations. In her opinion, the problems facing Western women and Chinese women were quite different and the solutions found by Western feminism would not work for Chinese feminism. The important goal of Western feminism was financial freedom for women. Li’s feminist theory believes that an important part of Chinese Feminism is home and family. She wants to be able to remain feminine while still being equal to men. Her vision of feminism largely involves personal fulfilment which cannot be given to you from the outside.

Li became the general editor of the Women’s Studies Research Series. She worked in the Department of Chinese in Zhengzhou University and chaired the Women’s Studies Research Center. She also serves on the international advisory board for the feminist academic journal Signs.

Li Xiaojiang has been a divisive figure in women’s studies. While Li remains attached to Marxist humanist discourse, two other notable scholars, Meng Yue and Dai Jinhua believe that gender difference does not need to be rooted in a person's sex. Li argues frequently with the All-China Women’s Federation, a State sponsored women’s organization. Li has criticized the Women’s Federation for lacking Gender Identity Theory, and the Women’s Federation is unwelcoming of Li Xiaojiang. Part of Li Xiaojiang's ability to create controversy while avoiding feedback is due to her location. She resides in a small industrial town with limited resources and of no real importance. The Ford Foundation has cooperated with her and through her to fund Women's Studies projects by Chinese feminists. Li has had two projects funded by the Ford Foundation. The first was the China Women’s Oral History from 2000-2003 and the Women/Gender Studies and the Higher Education from 2001–2003. China Women’s Oral History was the first large project of Gender Studies conducted in China. In 2004 she was the Director of Gender Studies at Dalian University.

Li Xiaojiang (李小江 ; born 1951) is a Chinese scholar of women's studies who was arguably the first to bring Women's Studies to importance in post-Mao China. One of China's leading feminist thinkers and writers, she has been a professor at several colleges, as well as director of gender studies at Dalian University. As a young student, she started off at the Henan University studying western literature, until an encounter showed her how lacking women's studies scholarship was and caused her to change her major from western literature to women's studies. In 1983 her work Xiawa de Tansuo (In Search of Eve) was the catalyst for a surge of women's studies. She founded the first Women’s Studies Research Centre and later a museum dedicated to women’s cultural anthropology.