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11 Facts About Li Shiqun

1.

Li Shiqun was a politician in the Republic of China.

2.

Li Shiqun attended the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow.

3.

At the direction of the party leaders, Li Shiqun hid in Nanjing after it was taken by the Japanese.

4.

When Wang Jingwei formally inaugurated the Nanking government in 1940, Li Shiqun was appointed to be the head of the Tewu as well as the deputy police minister and a member of the central committee.

5.

Li Shiqun has served as a member of the Military Affairs Commission.

6.

In December 1940, Li Shiqun was promoted to the police minister.

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From 1941 Li Shiqun headed the Shanghai section of the Sino-Japanese Cultural Association, was a member of the Political Committee and the committee for managing social activities of the Executive Yuan of the Reorganized National Government.

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8.

Li Shiqun was appointed governor of Jiangsu province in January 1943.

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Li Shiqun masterminded a program euphemistically called "village clearance" focused on rooting out any resistance to the Japanese occupiers in the countryside.

10.

On September 6,1943, Li Shiqun was invited to a banquet by the head of the Shanghai Department of the Japanese Military Police, where Li Shiqun was poisoned and collapsed.

11.

On September 9,1943, Li Shiqun died in Suzhou at the age of 38 from the effects of the poisoning.