Tien-Min Li
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- This is a Chinese name; the family name is 李 (Li)
Tien-Min Li (Chinese: 李天民; pinyin: Lǐ Tiānmín) (October 14, 1908 – June 24, 1993) was a Chinese Nationalist politician and political historian.
Born in Sichuan province, Li completed his undergraduate studies in economics at Waseda University. He was elected the Kuomintang representative for the municipality of Chengdu in Sichuan province. During and after the Chinese civil war, he continued to represent his district in the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China from 1948 to 1991<ref>Legislative Yuan page on committee assignments</ref>.
A historical biographer, and a professor at National Chengchi University, he wrote six books on Chinese Communist party leaders Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, and Lin Biao.
Li had seven children. His second son and youngest child, Kai-Fu Lee, is a prominent computer science researcher, the founding president of Google China and previously the founder of Microsoft Research Asia.
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- Chou En-Lai. Institute of International Relations, 1970. <ref>Review of Chou En-lai. by Li Tien-Min. Review author[s]: David D. Buck. Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Nov., 1971), pp. 194-195 doi:10.2307/2053080</ref> <ref>Chou En-lai and the Biographic Study of Chinese Communism. Reviewed Work(s). Review author[s]: Thomas W. Robinson. China Quarterly, No. 79 (Sep., 1979), pp. 608-613.</ref>
- Liu Shao-ch'i: Mao's first heir-apparent. Institute of International Relations, 1975.
- Ping Zhou Enlai. Ming bao chu ban she, 1994. Published posthumously; translated into English as A review of Zhou Enlai. ISBN 962-357-694-3
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