Wenwen Li is a doctoral candidate at Yuelu Academy of Hunan University. He holds a master's degree (2020) in the History of Chinese Thought from Northwest University in Xi'an, China, and a bachelor's degree (2013) in Chinese History from Tianshui Normal University in Tianshui, China.

His research field is the intellectual history of Confucianism. His master's thesis, To Return and To Create: Research on Li Ao's Confucianism, mainly discusses the question of Tang-Song Transitions.

In his doctoral thesis, he mainly studied the history and modern transformation of ancient Chinese Confucian self-cultivation, especially the problem of self-cultivation in the Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming dynasties