Yongsheng Li received a PhD from the Department of Literature, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Science. His main research fields are aesthetics and literary theory.

He is the lead researcher of the project “A Study on the Basic Problems of Expressionism Aesthetics”, which is supported by the National Social Science Fund (General Project: 18BZX139). His major writings include: “Art as Imagination and Expression: the Study of ‘Imagination Theory’ and ‘Expression Theory’ in Collingwood's Aesthetics”, “Poetry and Art Based on Reason and Transcendence: A Study on the Intellectualism and Transcendentalism of Maritain's Aesthetics”, “Maritain’s Aesthetic Attempt and Its Theory Significance in Unifying Intuition, Reason and Transcendence”, “Maritain’s Refinement of Freud’s Unconsciousness Theory and Its Aesthetic Significance”, “The Entanglement and the Appropriate Relationship between Aesthetics and Religion”, “The Mutual Interpretation of Yijing (idea-scape) and Poetic Knowledge”.