Education Background
2005     Ph. D. Peking University, College of Environmental Science
2001     M. A. Shaanxi Normal University, Department of History
1998     B. A. Xinjiang Normal University, Department of History
Work Experience
Northwest Institute of Historical Environment and Socio-Economic Development, Shaanxi Normal University
Assistant Professor (2005-2010)
Associate Professor (2011- present)

1.Li Zhang, Simin Lu, The evolution of the middle and lower reaches of Hutobi River and its influencing factors over the past 250 years, The Western Regions Studies, No.3, 2020, pp. 80-93.
2.Li Zhang, Jianjie Liu, Reconstruction of cropland spatial patterns of the Manas River Basin of Xinjiang in the late Qing and the Republic of China, Resources Science, Vol.42, No. 7, 2020, pp.1428-1437.
3.Siting Jia, Li Zhang*, “Yangche” and it’s Socio-economic Impact in Turpan —— A Study Based on the Republican Archives, Agricultural History of China, No. 3, 2020, pp.91-98.
4.Book Review: Xinyue Guo，Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China’s Borderlands (By JUDD C. KINZLEY, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2018), Journal of History and Anthropology, Vol. 2, 2019, pp. 107-110.
5.Li Zhang, Lu Yujun, Li Yikai, Plague, climate and politics: Locust Plague and the government response in Turpan and its surrounding areas in 1877-1880, Journal of Chinese Historical Geography, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2019, pp. 18-27.
6.Li Zhang, “Minister-Junior Bag”: between military governing and Zha-Sa-Ke system -Local Control System Adjustment in Turpan in 1761, The Western Regions Studies, No.4, 2018, pp. 25-35.
7.Book Review: Jiawen Zhao, Li Zhang, Borderland Capitalism: Turkestan Produce, Qing Silver and the Birth of an Eastern Market (By KWANGMIN KIM. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016), Journal of History and Anthropology, Vol. 2, 2018, pp. 154-158.
8.Li Yikai, Li Zhang*,Ye Yu, Lu Yujun, Drought Event in the Midwest Region of Northwest China in 1876-1878, Scientia Geographica Sinica, Vol. 38, No. 5, 2018, pp.780-789.
9.James Millward wrote in English, translated into Chinese by Li Zhang Silk Road Studies and the Qing Emperial Borderlands, Peng Mei News,  Feb. 23, 2018.
10.Li Zhang, Dongkai Yan. Disputes on the expansion project of Dahaizi Reservoir, Xinjiang, China, in 1950s, In Local realities and Environmental Changes in the History of East Asia, edited by Ts'ui-jung Liu (London: Rougtedge, 2015), pp.119-141.
11.Li Yikai, Li Zhang*, An Ling, Yang Yue, Temperature rise in eastern area of the Northern Foot of Tianshan Mountains in AD 1757-1774 recorded by historical documents, Journal of Palaeogeography, Vol. 17, No. 5, 2015, pp. 709-717.
12.Li Yikai, Li Zhang*, Study of migration into the North Foot of the Tianshan Mountains under the influence of extreme climate events from 1761 to 1780, Journal of Shaanxi Normal University (Natural Science Edition), Vol. 43, No. 5, 2015, pp. 84-89.
13.Li Zhang, An Ling, Study on the Change of Toutun River and Santun River in Xianjiang and the Influencing Factors in the Past 300 Years, Journal of Chinese Historical Geography, Vol.30, No.3, 2015, pp.5-17.
14.Micheal Loewe wrote in English, translated into Chinese by Li Zhang, Western Scholars’ Methods of Studying Chinese History, Journal of Shaanxi Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), Vol. 44, No. 3, 2015, pp. 65-74.
15.Liu Chuanfei, Li Zhang, Evolution of geopolitics in northwestern China in the early and middle Qing Dynasty, Journal of Shaanxi Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), Vol. 43, No. 2, 2014, pp. 143-149.
16.Tong Xuelian, Li Zhang, The researching trend of American environment history in the past ten years: a discussing centered on Environmental History, Journal of Chinese Historical Geography, Vol.28, No.3, 2013, pp.151-160.
17.Li Zhang, Yang Yue, Liu Chuangfei, The change of water resources utilization and its responses to the environment in Qitai county over the past 300 years, Journal of Arid Land Resources and Environment, Vol. 26, No. 7, 2012, pp. 35-40.
18.Li Zhang, The agricultural development in the North Piedmont of Tianshan Mountains in the period of Qianlong reign from the perspective of environmental history, The Qing History Journal, No. 1, Feb. 2010, pp. 47-60.
19.Li Zhang, Analyze on the population records of Zhenxi Fu and Dihua Zhou in the Western Regions Annals, Journal of Chinese Historical Geography, Vol.23, No.2, 2008, pp.142-147.
20.Li Zhang, Change of geographical scenery at the Northern Foot of the Tianshan Mountain from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, Journal of Shaanxi Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), Vol. 36, No. 1, 2007, pp. 62-70.
21.Li Zhang, A historical review of the changes to the course of the lower Tarim River, Watershed and Floodplain Management along the Tarim River in China’s Arid Northwest, ed. by Tomas Hoppe et al (Aachen: Shaker Press, 2006).
22.Li Zhang, Hang Guanghui, Yan Dongkai, Changes of Santun River and Hutubi River (Xinjiang, China) in the past 300 years, Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2007, pp. 957-970.
23.Joachim Radkau wrote in English, translated into Chinese by Li Zhang, Environmentalism worldwide: between civic movements and bureaucratic strategies, Journal of Chinese Historical Geography, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2006, pp. 134-141.
24.Frank Uekltter wrote in English, translated into Chinese by Li Zhang, Environmentalism in the world: a different views, Journal of Chinese Historical Geography, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2006, pp.142-149.
25.Li Zhang,Youli Li, On the changes of Manas lake in the past 300 years, Collections of Essays on Chinese Historical Geography, Vol.19, No.4, 2004, pp.127-160.
17.Li Zhang, Changes of environmental exploitation mode on ancient Loulan Oasis, Historical Geography, Vol. 18, (Shanghai: Shanghai Renmin Chubanshe, 2002), pp. 186-198.
26.Li Zhang, A study on changes of the river courses on ancient Loulan oasis and the reasons, Collections of Essays on Chinese Historical Geography, Vol.16, No.1, 2001, pp.87-98.
27.Li Zhang, New point of view on Loulan Road, The Western Region Studies, No. 3, 1999, pp. 86-88.

1.Number 13FZS014; Grants for publishing revised dissertation from National Social Science Foundation of China on “Land Exploitation and Environmental changes on the Northern Piedmont of the Tianshan Mountains From the Middle of 18th to 1949”; Date: 08/01/2013-08/31/2015.
2.Number 4121159; Principal investigator: Li Zhang; grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China on “The Responses of Lakes change to Climate Change in Plain Area of Xinjiang over the past 300 years”; Date:01/01/2013-12/31/2016.
3.Number 40801047; Principal investigator: Li Zhang; grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China on “Changes of the Land Use and its Impact on the Regional Sustainable Development in the Qitai County and Jimsar County of Xinjiang in the past 300 years”; Date:01/01/2009-12/31/2011.