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Memorandum of Conversations, by the Consul General at Canton (Ludden)90
[Canton, September 1–2, 1948.]
I talked with General Sun Li-jen91 at some length this morning92 at Tien Ho Airfield. He opened the conversation by asking me if I had read The Stilwell Papers. I assured him that I had and Sun expressed some surprise that these documents had been published. After some discussion we found ourselves in agreement that had General Stilwell lived and had been persuaded to recount his experiences in China the record would probably have taken a different form from The Stilwell Papers but could not have better reflected General Stilwell’s steadfast honesty in face of difficulties and frustrations which would have been unbearable to a lesser man. I told General Sun that the book was still on best seller lists in the United States and reviews in responsible American periodicals had been almost universally favorable. General Sun stated that this would not be the case in China. He said that he was very pleased that these papers had been published, that they expressed feelings shared by him and many other officers in the Chinese Army, but it was a matter for regret that they would receive very narrow circulation in China unless translated and that any effort to produce
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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Sun.
Sun Li-jen (traditional Chinese: 孫立人; simplified Chinese: 孙立人; pinyin: Sūn Lìrén) (December 8, 1900–November 19, 1990) was a Kuomintang (KMT) General, best known for his leadership in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War. His achievements earned him the laudatory nickname "Rommel of the East". His New 1st Army was reputed as the "1st [Best] Army under heaven" and credited with defeating the most Japanese troops. He was also known as Sun Chung-neng (孫仲能, Sūn Zhòngnéng) and had the courtesy name Sun Fu-min (孫撫民, Sūn Fǔmín).
Early life[]
Sun Li-jen was born in Jinnu, Lujiang, Chaohu, Anhui, with ancestry in Shucheng County. During the May Fourth Movement, he was part of the Scouts in the march at Tiananmen Square. In the same year (1919) he married Gong Xitao (龔夕濤) and was admitted in 1920 to Tsinghua University to study civil engineering. Sun played basketball at Tsinghua, becoming a star. He led the Chinese team to a gold medal at the 1921 Far Eastern Championship Games. [1]
With a Boxer Indemnity Scholarship, he transferred to Purdue University in the United States to complete his senior year in 1923, where he graduated in 1924. But in the United States, ideological zeal motivat
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