Mao Zedong (as Chairman of the Central People's Government) Yan Xishan (acting) Chiang Kai-shek
1st Vice President of the Republic of China
In office 20 May 1948 – 12 March 1954
President
Chiang Kai-shek Himself (acting)
Preceded by
Position established (Feng Guozhang in 1917)
Succeeded by
Chen Cheng
Personal details
Born
(1890-08-13)13 August 1890 Guilin, Guangxi, Qing Empire
Died
30 January 1969(1969-01-30) (aged 78) Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Political party
Kuomintang
Spouse(s)
Li Xiuwen Guo Dejie (m.1924–1966) Hu Yousong (m.1966–1969)
Awards
Order of Blue Sky and White Sun Order of the Cloud and Banner
Military service
Allegiance
Republic of China
Branch/service
National Revolutionary Army
Years of service
1916–1954
Rank
General
Battles/wars
Chinese Civil War Second Sino-Japanese War
Chinese name
Chinese
李宗仁
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Lǐ Zōngrén
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Lii Tzongren
Wade–Giles
Li3 Tsung1-jen2
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Lí Chong-jîn
Courtesy name
Traditional Chinese
李德鄰
Simplified Chinese
李德邻
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Lǐ Délín
Li Zongren (Chinese: 李宗仁; 13 August 1890 – 30 January 1969; also known as Li Tsung-jen), courtesy name Telin (Te-lin; 德鄰), was a prominent Chinese warlord based in Guangxi and Kuomintang (KMT) military commander during the Northern Expedition, Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War. He served as vice-president and acting president of the Republic of China under the 1947 Constitution.
LiZongren (Chinese: 李宗仁; 13 August 1890 – 30 January 1969; also known as Li Tsung-jen), courtesy name Telin (Te-lin; 德鄰), was a prominent Chinese warlord...
The New Guangxi clique (Chinese: 新桂系), led by LiZongren, Huang Shaohong, and Bai Chongxi, was a warlord clique during the Republic of China. After the...
After the Northern Expedition ended in 1928, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, LiZongren and Zhang Fakui broke off relations with Chiang shortly after a demilitarization...
the Muslim faith. From the mid-1920s to 1949, Bai and his close ally LiZongren ruled Guangxi province as regional warlords with their own troops and...
several Yangtze dikes, slowing the KMT push. By 28 August, the KMT, led by LiZongren and his Guangxi NRA Seventh Army, had taken Xianning, about 75 kilometres...
against the 200,000 Japanese in 20 divisions of the Imperial Japanese Army. LiZongren and Bai Chongxi of the Fifth War Zone were assigned to defend the north...
Vice-Presidential candidate, was defeated by General LiZongren in the vice-presidential elections. Chiang and Li inaugurated at the Presidential Palace in Nanjing...
losses and defections to the Chinese Communist Party. The Vice President LiZongren was then sworn in as the Acting President. He decided to lift the nationwide...
included the northern warlord Feng Yuxiang, the Guangxi Clique led by LiZongren, and the left-leaning Kuomintang faction led by Wang Jingwei. While Feng...
victories in the Chinese Civil War and was replaced by Vice President LiZongren as the acting president. However, Chiang continued to wield authority...
Seishiro moved south first to attack Tai'erzhuang, where he was defeated by LiZongren in a regional asymmetric battle. Following this defeat, Japan intended...
eradicate Chinese control of the Ping-Han Railway's southern section. LiZongren, commander of the Chinese 5th War Area, avoided frontal contact with the...
Chinese Expeditionary Force in the Burma Theater until he was replaced by Wei Li-huang because of illness. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Chen became...
clique controlled two: the Wuhan and Beiping; under LiZongren and Bai Chongxi, respectively. Li Jishen, who was related to the Guangxi clique, loosely...
the early 1920s New Guangxi clique, a clique of Chinese warlords led by LiZongren from the mid 1920s Guangxi Army of the Qing dynasty This disambiguation...
conflict between Guangxi warlord LiZongren and the Nationalist Government. However, that conflict ended quickly, and Li was able to bring his army around...
Bai Chongxi, general and politician Jiang Zhenbang, badminton player LiZongren, general and warlord, vice-president and acting president of the Republic...
Chiang sent his Vice Chief of Staff Bai Chongxi to Xuzhou in January 1938. LiZongren and Bai were old comrades from the New Guangxi Clique, and had served...
change hands five times a day. On October 17, the Guangxi Army under LiZongren and Bai Chongxi finally arrived to join Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army...
daughter of Cheng Siyuan (程思遠), the secretary of the KMT Chinese President LiZongren, and Vice Chairman of the CPPCC. Lin Dai was awarded the Best Actress...
of the General Staff. Bai Chongxi was a close ally of Guangxi warlord LiZongren and the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the National Military Council...
University of Hawaii Press. p. 97. ISBN 9780824817213. Li, Zongren. 李宗仁回憶錄 [Memoirs of LiZongren] (in Chinese). Clark, Grover, ed. (15 January 1927a)....
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