Li Liejun
Chinese revolutionary leader and general (1882–1946)
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 Wuning, Jiangxi, Province. In 1904, he was sent on a government scholarship to Japan to study at the 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 Wuchang Uprising and was appointed commander of the pro-republican forces in Jiujiang in Xinhai Revolution. He also raised a pro-republic army in Anhui Province and after joining forces with Li Yuanhong, eventually came to control military forces in five provinces of central China. Although appointed Military Governor of Jiangxi Province 1912.
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