Li Liejun

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Li Liejun

Li Liejun (simplified Chinese: 李烈钧; traditional Chinese: 李烈鈞; pinyin: Lǐ Lièjūn; Wade–Giles: Li Lie-chün; 23 February 1882 – 20 February 1946), was a Chinese revolutionary leader and general in the early Republic of China.

Biography

Li was born in

Tokyo Shimbu Gakko, a military preparatory academy. In 1907, he was accepted into the artillery school of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy where his classmates included Yan Xishan, Tang Jiyao and Cheng Qian. While in Japan, he also joined the Tongmenghui, a revolutionary society dedicated to the overthrow of the Qing dynasty and the modernization of China. He returned to China in 1908 to accept a military posting in Jiangxi Province, but suspected of anti-government politics, he was placed under house arrest. In 1909, he relocated to Yunnan Province to accept a position as instructor at the Yunnan Military Academy in Kunming
.

Li returned to Jiangxi on hearing of the

Chinese Revolutionary Party, and re-entered Yunnan from French Indochina. Yunnan warlord Cai E placed Li in command of one of his three armies, and assigned him the task of taking Guangxi Province during the National Protection War against Yuan Shikai. However, Li was defeated by the Guangdong-based warlord Long Jiguang and was forced to flee to Hainan. The war came to an end with Yuan Shikai’s death in 1916, and Li was able to return via Hong Kong and Shanghai in 1917 at the invitation of Sun Yatsen to accept promotion to field marshal and the post of chief of staff of the Constitutional Protection Movement
.

Li remained an important decision-maker in the Kuomintang government after

National Military Council in 1932 and served until 1945. He died on February 20, 1946, in Chongqing
.

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