Background
Liao was born in 1877 in San Francisco and received his early education in the United States. His father Liao Zhubin, who had five wives, was sent to San Francisco by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.
Liao was born in 1877 in San Francisco and received his early education in the United States. His father Liao Zhubin, who had five wives, was sent to San Francisco by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.
Returning to Hong Kong in 1893, at the age of sixteen he studied at Queen"s College from 1896.
He was assassinated in Guangzhou in August 1925. He was one of twenty-four children. He then went to Japan in January 1903 to study political science at Waseda University.
In 1907 he went to Tokyo University to study political and economic science.
Liao joined the Chinese Revolutionary Alliance in 1905 upon its founding and became the director of the financial bureau of Guangdong after the founding of the Republic of China. After Chen"s defeat Liao became Civil governor of Guangdong from May 1923 to February 1924, and then again from June to September 1924.
When the Chinese Nationalist Party was reformed in 1924, he was named the head of the Department of Workers, and then Department of Peasants. Later he became Minister of Finance of the southern government, seated in Guangdong.
Liao continued his belief in Sun"s policy after he died, including one of the key policies of maintaining close relations with the Soviet Union as well as the Chinese Communist Party, which was strongly opposed by the Chinese Nationalist Party right wing.
Suspicion for the act fell upon Hu Hanmin, who was then arrested. The latter had four sons, Liao Hui being the eldest.
He was the principal architect of the first Kuomintang–Chinese Communist Party (Chinese Nationalist Party–CCP) United Front in the 1920s. In the early struggles of the party, Liao Zhongkai was arrested by Guangdong strongman Chen Jiongming in June 1922. During the first Kuomintang–Chinese Communist Party cooperation period, he was appointed to the Kuomintang Executive Committee.
When Sun Yat-sen died in Beijing in March, 1925, and Liao was one of the three most powerful figures in the Kuomintang Executive Committee, the other two were Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin. Liao was assassinated before a Kuomintang Executive Committee meeting on August 20, 1925 in Guangzhou, when five gunmen riddled him with bullets from Mauser C96s as he stepped out of his limousine. This left only Wang Jingwei and the rising Chiang Kai-shek as rivals for control of the Kuomintang.