By means of CALPHAD (CALculation of PHAse Diagram) technique, the Li-Zn system was critically assessed. Three solution phases (liquid, body-centered cubic, hexagonal close-packed) were modeled with the Redlich-Kister equation. The compound LiZn2 was treated as stoichiometric compound. (alpha Li2Zn3, beta Li2Zn3, LiZn5 and alpha LiZn4, which had a homogeneity range, were treated as the formulae Li-2(Li,Zn)(3), (Li,Zn)(2)(Li,Zn)(3), (Li,Zn)(2)Zn-5 and (Li,Zn)(1)(Li,Zn)(4), respectively. A three-sublattice model (Li,Zn)(0.5)(Li,Zn)(0.5)(Va)(3) is applied to describe the compound LiZn in order to cope with the order-disorder transition between body-centered cubic solution (A2) and LiZn with NaTl-type structure (B32). Another three-sublattice model (Li,Zn)(0.2)(Li, Zn)(0.8)(Va)(0.5) is applied to describe the compound beta LiZn4 in order to cope with the order-disorder transition between hexagonal close-packed solution (A3) and beta LiZn4 with Mg-type structure. A set of self-consistent thermodynamic parameters of the Li-Zn system was obtained. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.