Lu Chung-lin (1884-), military officer and long-time subordinate of Feng Yü-hsiang who became minister of w^ar at Nanking in 1929. When the northern coalition collapsed and the command structure of the Kuominchün disintegrated in 1930, he broke with Feng. He later served the National Government as minister of conscription and the Central People's Government as […]
Liu Chih-tan (1903-April 1936), Chinese Communist guerrilla leader who, with Kao Kang (q.v.), carved out the northern Shensi base that became the final destination of the Long March. A native of Shensi, Liu Chih-tan was born into a landowning family in the Paoan district. After completing his primary education in the early 1920's, he enrolled […]
Liu Chih (1892-), prominent Nationalist military commander. He served as governor of Honan from 1930 to 1935, reorganized troops .in Kiangsu, Anhwei, and Honan after the Sian Incident, commanded the Chungking garrison district from 1939 to 1945, and served as field commander for the Hwai-Hai battle in late 1948. In 1952 he joined the National […]
Liu Shao-ch'i 劉少奇 Pseud. Hu Fu 胡服 Liu Shao-ch'i (1900-), the Chinese Communist party's foremost expert on the theory and practice of organization and party structure, became Chairman of the People's Republic of China in April 1959. He was the second-ranking member of the party until 1966, when he became a principal target of the […]
Lin Ch'ang-min (16 July 1876-December 1925), scholar and government official who devoted his life to the development of constitutionalism and parliamentary government in China. He met an untimely end after joining Kuo Sungling at the time of Kuo's 1925 revolt against Chang Tso-lin. Although he was born in Hangchow, Lin Ch'ang-min was a native of […]
Liang Hung-chih ^ ^ ^^ T. Chung-i ^ S Liang Hung-chih (1883-9 November 1946), influential member of the Anhwei clique and the Anfu Club who became a prominent official in Japanese-sponsored regimes. He was executed for treason by the National Government in 1946. A native of Ch'anglo, Fukien, Liang Hungchih came from a prominent family […]
Li Tsung-jen 李宗仁 T. Te-lin 德鄰 Li Tsung-jen (1890-), leader of the so-called Kwangsi clique, which also included Pai Ch'ung-hsi and Huang Shao-hung. He was elected to the vice presidency of the National Government in 1948, and he became acting President in 1949. He retired to the United States in December 1949, but went to […]
Li Ta-chao 李大釗 T. Shou-ch'ang 守常 Li Ta-chao (1889-28 April 1927), founding member of the Chinese Communist party who, as librarian and professor at Peking University, strongly influenced the youth of China at the time of the May Fourth Movement. He was the principal director of Communist organizational and propaganda activities in north China until […]
Li Te-ch'uan (1 July 1896-), the wife of Feng Yü-hsiang (q.v.), became prominent in Chinese women's organizations during the Sino-Japanese war. From October 1949 to December 1964 she served the Central People's Government as minister of health. Fuhsingchuang, Chihli (Hopei), a community of Chinese Christian survivors of the Boxer Rebellion, was the birthplace of Li […]
Li Chi (1896-), archaeologist who became head of the archaeology' section of the Academia Sinica"s institute of history and philology in 1928 and director of that institute in Taiwan in 1955. He was best known to Westerners for his direction of the excavations at Anyang. A native of Chunghsiang, Hupeh, Li Chi was born into […]
