Dayan Li is a student at Sarah Lawrence College, class of 2017. He is an intern at the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations. He is also a social media contributor to the ChinaFile partner site CNPolitics. He spent all of his life before college in Nanjing, China.
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Last Updated: March 19, 2015
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