[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":8},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-li-schoolland":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7],"Li Schoolland was born in the People’s Republic of China and lived through the Great Leap Forward, the famine that followed it and the Cultural Revolution, before watching the country’s economic transformation in the decades after. Having seen both authoritarian rule and economic liberalisation at first hand, she speaks on the relationship between liberty, prosperity and human flourishing. She has worked in education, in the arts and in event organisation, and argues for freedom oriented ideas and institutions.","She also publishes as Li Zhao Schoolland, and her own account of the Mao years appears as the chapter A Survivor’s Story in Libertarian Autobiographies, published in 2023. She has taught in high schools and universities in China, Minnesota and Hawaii, served as youth director of the Chinese Lutheran Church of Honolulu, and holds master’s degrees in Japanese business studies from Chaminade University of Honolulu and in Japanese literature from the University of Minnesota. She speaks Mandarin, Japanese and English.","She founded TFT Events, which has run conferences and summer camps on Austrian economics since 2010 in China, Slovakia, Romania, Indonesia and Morocco, and through it she has arranged the Chinese translation and publication of work by Jesús Huerta de Soto, Doug Casey, Ken Schoolland, Jeffrey Tucker and the Acton Institute. Liberty International describes her as a longtime member and its primary organiser for conferences in China, Slovakia and Bali; the Shenyang summer programme was her idea and started in 2009. She chairs the World Anti Extremism Network, was formerly on the Acton Institute’s staff for external relations in Asia and the Pacific, and is married to Ken Schoolland, an economist at Hawai’i Pacific University and vice president for international relations at Liberty International.",1789340917758]