Lǐ Lián 李廉, zì Xíngjiǎn 行簡, was a late-Yuán Confucian scholar and martyr-official from Lújiāng 廬江 (in present-day Ānhuī). According to Yáng Shìqí’s 楊士奇 Dōnglǐ jí 東里集, cited in the Sìkù tíyào of his Chūnqiū huìtōng 春秋會通 (KR1e0064), Lǐ passed the provincial examination in Chūnqiū in Zhìzhèng rénwǔ 至正壬午 (1342) and thereupon took the jìnshì in the same year on the Chén Zǔrén 陳祖仁 roster — passing the metropolitan and palace exams unusually swiftly. He served as magistrate (lìng 令) of Xìnfēng 信豐 county. When the late-Yuán wars reached the south, he died in office defending the city — shǒujié sǐ 守節死. Because the north-south routes were broken, his death was not officially registered for honors during the late-Yuán confusion; and when the Míng founders set out to compile the Yuán shǐ 元史 in 1370, none of his surviving acquaintances was in office to remember him, and the local authorities did not know to report the case. The Yuán shǐ therefore omits him.
CBDB id 102951 records 李廉 as a Zhìzhèng 2 (1342) jìnshì with index year 1312 — implying a likely birth date in the early 1310s. Death year is here taken as 1368, around the time of the Míng founding when the late-Yuán southern campaigns reached his prefecture; this date is conventional but not strictly attested. The catalog meta in data/catalogs/meta/KR1e.yaml gives no lifedates.
His sole surviving major work is the Chūnqiū huìtōng 春秋諸傳會通 (also styled Chūnqiū zhūzhuàn huìtōng) in twenty-four juan, completed in Zhìzhèng jǐchǒu 9 / 7 (1349) — at which point Lǐ states in his own preface that he had been studying the Chūnqiū for thirty years. The work is methodologically a huìtōng 會通 (synthesis): it lays out the Chūnqiū with the Zuǒzhuàn events first (as the factual record), the Gōngyáng and Gǔliáng next (as the earliest expositions), then the standard commentaries of Dù Yù 杜預, Hé Xiū 何休, and Fàn Níng 范寧 (as the school-traditions), then the zhèngyì 正義 sub-commentaries (as the resolutions of doubts), and finally Hú Ānguó 胡安國 (as the determinative judge), with selected supplementary material from Chén Fùliáng 陳傅良 (KR1e0038) and Zhāng Qià 張洽 (KR1e0048) — every position represented by a complete extant work, none by orphan citations. The result was important enough that the imperial Qīndìng Chūnqiū chuánshuō huìzuǎn (KR1e0094) draws extensively on it.