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Lii Wen (born 4 March 1989) is a Taiwanese journalist and politician.

Early life and education
Lii was born on 4 March 1989, to sociologist and National Tsing Hua University professor Lii Ding-tzann, and is a Hsinchu native. He earned a bachelor's degree from National Taiwan University and a master's degree at the University of Chicago. As a student within NTU's anthropology department, Lii participated in fieldwork in China, Taiwan, and across Southeast Asia and also worked for the news magazine NTU Consciousness.

Career
After finishing his master's degree, Lii gave up dual American citizenship and returned to Taiwan to complete his military service. From 2014 to 2015, Lii wrote for the Taipei Times. Lii also worked for the Democratic Progressive Party and later the National Security Council, specializing in international outreach and diplomatic policy research. He subsequently became a party spokesperson. Following the 2018 Taiwanese local elections, the Democratic Progressive Party asked Lii to consider running for any Legislative Yuan seat in Taipei or New Taipei deemed primarily pan-blue. He rejected the suggestion and sought to run in an even more difficult district, the Matsu Islands. In September 2019, Lii duly accepted the DPP nomination for the Legislative Yuan in Lienchang County, becoming the first Democratic Progressive legislative candidate there since Tsao Cheng-ti in 2008. He finished third in the 2020 legislative election, behind incumbent Chen Hsueh-sheng and former lawmaker Tsao Erh-chung. Although he lost, Lii's campaign set a record for DPP-affiliated vote share in a Matsu legislative election at eleven percent. Lii's legislative campaign was noted for a slim chance of victory, but attracted attention for using military imagery, considered rare for a DPP candidate. He also wore a large balloon advertising his campaign, as well as gloves resembling lobster claws, and a winged mussel costume to draw attention to aquaculture in Lienchang County. In July 2020, he became the founding leader of the DPP chapter in Lienchang County. Lii then worked to nominate the first Matsu-based DPP candidates for local political office. His campaign for the Lienchang County magistracy in the 2022 local election featured an inflatable fish, representing the yellow croaker. Lii, who was the first DPP nominee for the Lienchiang magistracy, finished behind two Kuomintang candidates, Wang Chung-ming and Tsao Erh-yuan.