[1] In 1945 he was elected a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang and participated in the conference for the founding of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

In the academic year of 1951–52 he taught Chinese language and culture at the University of Hamburg in Germany.

[4] He studied under a number of renowned professors, among them Nobel laureates Paul Sabatier, Gabriel Lippmann and Marie Curie.

[4]: 24–29 Three leaders of the Tongmenghui lived as guests in the dormitory of the preparatory school Li attended prior to his studies in France.

[5] Once in France Li met and befriended Li Shizeng and Wu Zhihui, two of the fiercely anti-communist "Four Elders" of the Chinese Nationalist Party; Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library contains multiple volumes of his personal correspondence with them in Chinese.

Li Shu-hua returned to China in 1922 and served as professor of physics at Peking University until 1930.

[11] In 1929, he became vice president of the National Academy of Peiping, a post he held until the takeover of the Communist Party forced its closing in 1949.