Liao Zhongkai, Kuomintang leader and financier. Liao Zhongkai was the principal architect of the first Kuomintang-Chinese Communist Party (KMT-CCP) United Front in the 1920s. Liao Zhongkai was born in 1877, in San Francisco and received his early education in the United States. He was one of twenty-four children. His father, Liao Zhubin, who had five wives, was sent to San Francisco by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. Wikipedia
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