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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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Chinese general honored in DC

Congressman Ro Khanna (right) presents the Congressional Record to California Assemblyman Kansen Chu (left), grandnephew of General Sun Li-jen, and Chu's wife Daisy (center) on Thursday on Capitol Hill. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

Chinese war hero and US ally Sun Li-jen, known as "the ever-victorious general" for his feats fighting the Japanese in Burma in World War II, has been recognized for the first time on the floor of the US Congress.

Congressman Ro Khanna, representing California's 17th District, honored General Sun on Thursday. He encouraged Congress to remember Sun's contributions and legacy and their importance to people of Chinese and Chinese-American ancestry.

Sun was a friend of American generals MacArthur and Eisenhower. He was awarded the Legion of Merit, a US military award for extraordinarily meritorious conduct, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in recognition of his victory in the Battle of Yenangyaung, Burma, in 1942.

With unanimous consent, the report recommending Sun for the Legion of Merit and a letter from the Virginia Military Institute, his alma mater, were entered into the US Congressional Record.

"Under most trying conditions General Sun displayed high qualities of leadership. The First Burma Division