Li Yuan () (born 1879) was a politician of the
Republic of China
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and later
Manchukuo
Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China, Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 afte ...
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Background
He was born in Beijing. A loyalist of
Fengtian clique warlord
Zhang Zuolin, he became the 12th Republican mayor of his hometown on September 4, 1926. He had been acting mayor since May. In February 1933, Li travelled to
Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai in the
Soviet Union
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to be consulate general on behalf of the government of
Manchukuo
Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China, Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 afte ...
.
Disappearance
In November 1935, Li and
Yin Ju-keng
Yin Rukeng; (; Hepburn: ''In Jyokou''; 1885 - December 1, 1947) was a politician in the early Republic of China, later noted for his role as chairman in the Japanese-controlled East Hebei Autonomous Government and subsequent puppet regimes, ...
created the
East Hebei Autonomous Council
The East Hebei Autonomous Government (),Japanese language, Japanese also known as the East Ji Autonomous Government and the East Hebei Autonomous Anti-Communist Government, was a short-lived late-1930s state in Northern and southern China, north ...
. The circumstances of his later life and death are unknown.
[徐主編（2007）、432頁。][尾崎監修（1940）、329頁の記載によると、 中華民国臨時政府が1938（民国27年）10月1日に財政部を創設した際に李垣が同部総務局長に就任、としている。しかし、劉ほか編（1995）、1021頁及び1288頁によれば、この総務局長に就任した人物は「李桓」（別号は経武。 四川省 隣水県出身）という別人である。]
See also
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List of people who disappeared
Lists of people who disappeared include those whose current whereabouts are unknown, or whose deaths are unsubstantiated. Many people who disappear are eventually declared dead ''in absentia''. Some of these people were possibly subjected to enfo ...
References
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尾崎秀実監修「アジア人名辞典」
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1879 births
20th-century deaths
1930s missing person cases
Missing person cases in China
Year of death unknown
People of Manchukuo
Republic of China mayors of Beiping