Li Zongren

Li Zongren or Li Tsungjen , courtesy name Delin , was a prominent Guangxi warlord and Kuomintang military commander during the Northern Expedition, Second SinoJapanese War and Chinese Civil War. He served as vicepresident and acting president of the Republic of China under the 1947 Chinese Constitution.

Li Zongren was born in Xixiang Village , near Guilin in Guangxi Province, the second eldest in a Zhuang family of five boys and three girls. Lis father, Li Peiying , was a village schoolmaster. After a patchy education Li enrolled in a provincial military school. Li joined the Tongmenghui, the revolutionary party of Sun Yatsen, in 1910, but had little understanding at that time of Suns wider goals of reform and national reunification. Lis native province of Guangxi was also the home province of the Taiping general Li Xiucheng, who Lis family claimed to be related to.

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