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Li Zongren4
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Li Zongren6
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Mao Zedong and Li Zongren
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孟昭瑞
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李宗仁

Lǐ Zōngrén
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Li Zongren, leader of the Guangxi (Guixi) warlord faction and acting president of the Republic of China (1949)

About Li Zongren

1891–1969 · 军事家 military leader

Leader of the 桂系 (Guangxi clique) of Nationalist generals, who commanded at the 1938 victory over Japan at 台儿庄 and was acting head of the Nationalist government in 1949. He later lived in the US and returned to Beijing in 1965.

Also called  德邻

Examples

HSK 6
Lǐ Zōngrén zhǐhuī de Tái'érzhuāng Zhànyì shì kàng zhàn zhōng de zhùmíng shènglì.
The Battle of Tai'erzhuang, commanded by Li Zongren, was a famous victory in the War of Resistance.
HSK 7-9
Lǐ Zōngrén shì Mínguó shíqī de zhòngyào jūnshì hé zhèngzhì rénwù.
Li Zongren was an important military and political figure of the Republican era.

Tips

memory
He and his partner 白崇禧 were known together as 李白, the Tang poet's name. A riddle about them ran: a scholar yet a soldier, a man of today yet of old, one man yet two; the answer was 李白.

Stroke Order

李 lǐ
宗 zōng
仁 rén