Liu Ssu-fu (1884-March 1915), founder and leader of the first anarchist societies to be established in China and publisher of the Minsheng [voice of the people] . Born into a well-to-do family in Hsiangshan, Kwangtung, Liu Ssu-fu received a conventional education in the Chinese classics and became a sheng-yuan at the age of 15 sui. […]
Liu Wen-tao (3 April 1893-1 1 June 1967), served the National Government in such posts as minister to Germany and Austria ( 1 93 1-33) and minister (ambassador after 1934) to Italy (1933-37). Kwangchi hsien, Hupeh, was the birthplace of Liu Wen-tao. Little is known about his family background or early education. At the age […]
Liu Ya-tzu (May 1887-June 1958), the last outstanding poet of the traditional school. He also was known as a scholar and as the founder of the Xan-she (Southern Society). Born in the Wuchiang district of Soochow, Liu Ya-tzu came from a land-holding literary family whose property provided means to educate several generations of its male […]
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 […]
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 […]
Liao Chung-k'ai (1878-20 August 1925), Kuomintang financial administrator and chief architect of the Kuomintang-Communist alliance that resulted in the reorganization of the party along Leninist lines. At the time of his assassination in 1925 he held such posts as minister of finance, governor and financial commissioner of Kwangtung, head of the Kuomintang workers department, and […]
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-shen (1886-9 October 1959), commander of the Fourth Army (1925-26) who served during the Northern Expedil^ion as governor of Kwangtung, military affairs commissioner, and acting president of the Whampoa Military Academy. He became the top-ranking military and political officer at Canton. He later participated in several movements which opposed Chiang Kaishek. After being expelled […]
Li Shih-tseng 李石曾 Orig. Li Yü-ying 李煜瀛 Li Shih-tseng (1881-), leader of the work-study movement in France who became known as one of the "four elder statesmen of the Kuomintang." Although his native place was Kaoyang, Chihli (Hopei), Li Shih-tseng was born in Peking. He and his elder brother, Li Kun-ying, were the sons of […]
Li Shu-hua T. Jun-chang Li Shu-hua (1890-), internationally known physicist and educator and vice president of the National Peiping Research Academy from 1929 to 1948. The son of Li Wan-k'uei, a landowning farmer, Li Shu-hua was born in Changli hsien, Chihli (Hopei). He had one younger brother, Li Shu-t'ien. Beginning in 1896, Li Shu-hua studied […]
