Li actively opposed Yuan Shikai's empire, fighting in the Second Revolution and the National Protection War.

[1] By September 1924, Li had been named director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Governmental Affairs under governor Hu Hanmin.

Li was elected to the National Constituent Assembly [zh] in November 1946, and served as vice president of the Judicial Yuan from April 1947 to July 1948.

Later that year, Li was elected to the first National Assembly to be convened after the ratification of the Constitution of the Republic of China.

He continued serving on the National Assembly, and was an active member of the Kuomintang central committee, as well as an adviser to President Chiang Kai-shek.