LI Kaiyuan is a professor of Human Studies, Department of Comprehensive History at Shujitsu University, Japan. He graduated from Peking University in 1982 and later became a faculty of Department of History at Peking Univeristy. He received his PhD of Literature at Tokyo University. Li is also a part time researcher of Peking University Center for Research on Ancient Chinese History. His publications include The Mystery of Qin Dynasty: Qin Shi Huang Rediscovered (2017), The Destruction of Qin Dynasty: From Qin Shi Huang to Liu Bang (2015), The Ruination of Chu: From Xiang Yu to Han Xin (2013), The Establishment of the Han Empire and the Group of Liu Bang -Studies on the Military Meritocracy (2000). He is currently working on the theory of history and the information science and the Study on the structure of politics and the social strata in the Han Empire.