On graduation, he left on board a liner on February 15, 1927, with a friend for Paris, France, for further studies.

"In spring 1927 I was living atop a five-storied apartment at Paris's Quartier Latin, a small lodging full of gas and onion smell. I was lonely; I felt pain, sunlight hardly shone into my room: I missed my homeland and my family." （一九二七年春天我住在巴黎拉丁区一家小小公寓的五层楼上，一间充满煤气和洋葱味的小屋子里，我寂寞，我痛苦，在阳光难照到的房间里，我想念祖国，想念亲人。）

It was partly owing to boredom when Li began to write his first novel, Miewang (“Destruction”) on a jotterbook. In France, Li continued his anarchist activism, translated many anarchist works, including Kropotkin's Ethics, into Chinese, which was mailed back to Shanghai anarchist magazines for publication.

Photo above is Li and his eldest brother Li Yaomei in Shanghai in 1929.(Eastday/Jiang Wenran)