| Summary: | 博士 === 國立中正大學 === 歷史研究所 === 101 === Li Jishen joined the Guangdong army in 1921 at the invitation of Deng Keng, the chief of staff and his schoolmate. Ever since, Li was able to exercise his influence on others by means of the superior-subordinate relationship in the army. In March 1929, Chiang Kai-shek expelled Li from the Kuomintang and placed him in detention in Tangshan. As a result, Li was deprived of his political and military power. However, the political prestige he had accumulated over the years made him the spiritual leader of the anti-Chiang alliance. Li’s stand of anti-Chiang and anti-Japanese led him to be expelled from and rejoined the Kuomingtang three times. Li rose to power in Guangdong, but local people’s exclusiveness made it hard for Guangxi-born Li to hold a position there. Li established strong working relationships with Chen Mingshu, Chen Jitang and Zhang Fakui. All of them belonged to the Guangdong clique. The relationships between Li and two Chens changed because of Chiang Kai-Shek’s intervention. Chen Mingshu worked with Li again later as they both opposed Chiang, while Chen Jitang and Li became strangers. Zhang Fakui’s political ideas were close to Wang Jingwei’s, thus Zhang and Li went their separate ways. New Guangxi clique and Li’s strong connection of the geographical relation and fostering gradually weakened due to realistic conflict of interests. The relationship between Li and Chiang was the most important factor of Li’s status in politics. However, Li had no control of it at all. After his detention in Tangshan, Li had made anti-Chiang his main political goal and the mission of his life. Li’s firm stand to oppose Chiang and to fight against Japan attracted members in democratic parties and in Chinese Communist Party as well as those who were anti-Chiang. Li took advantage of the political situation and his personal network in the party, the government and the army to develop a complicated, closely interwoven and powerful network. Therefore, Li played an important role in the contemporary history of China as he could contend against Chiang and be valued by the Chinese Communist Party.
Keywords: Li Jishen, personal network, Guangdong clique, New Guangxi clique, anti-Chiang
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