[6] After a brief stint in Beijing working as the new National Assembly's secretary from 1911 to 1914, Li returned to his native Hunan to direct other student choirs.

[6] Li decided in 1916 to move back to Beijing, where he became involved in the New Culture Movement centered at Peking University.

[6] In Beijing, Li also delved deeper into his lifelong pursuit of his two passions: the pedagogy of language and folk music.

[6] In Little Friend, Li promoted anti-feudalist attitudes, national use of Mandarin Chinese, family values, sharing, harmony with nature, and good citizenship through nursery rhymes and children's operas.

The songs were stripped down to just the melody, written in simplified notation, and they fused Chinese instrumentation with guitars, violins and pianos.

[6] Though Li's early work is completely innocent and educational in content, it still met with disapprobation from some critics despite its immense popularity.

Beginning in 1923, Li's broke the taboo of not allowing women to perform on stage when he hired young girls to sing and dance in his school musical productions, including The Sparrow and the Child and The Little Painter.

[6] Minghui grew to become a singer, actress and child film star, but she was also brutally criticized for her public performances due to the traditional distrust of entertainers as “tawdry and shameful”.

[6] Armed with the success of his first album, Li reconstituted the Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe in 1929 and toured around the country.

Li's revolutionary Chinese jazz music dominated the nightlife scene, and it was performed at cabarets, cafes and nightclubs around southeast Asia.

[6] Li's music began to be associated with the urban mass marketing of the female image, and an obsession with stardom and commercialism.

Classified as a founder of Yellow Music by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), he became a victim of political persecution during the Cultural Revolution.

[14] Xu later married Kuomintang general Tang Shengming and worked as a Juntong secret agent during the Anti-Japanese War.

[citation needed] Though a controversial figure in his time, Li Jinhui contributed hundreds of songs to the musical community released by many major recording companies, including Great China, Pathe-EMI and RCA-Victor.