Sun Yat-sen

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Sun Yat-senTemplate:Efn (Template:IPAc-en;<ref>Template:Multiref</ref> 12 November 1866Template:Snd12 March 1925) was a Chinese physician, revolutionary, statesman, and political philosopher who founded the Republic of China (ROC) and its first political party, the Kuomintang (KMT). As the paramount leader of the 1911 Revolution, Sun is credited with overthrowing the Qing imperial dynasty and served as the first president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China (1912) and as the inaugural leader of the Kuomintang.<ref name="Tung1" />

Born to a peasant family in Guangdong, Sun was educated overseas in Hawaii and returned to China to graduate from medical school in Hong Kong. He led underground anti-Qing revolutionaries in South China, the United Kingdom, and Japan as one of the Four Bandits and rose to prominence as the founder of multiple resistance movements, including the Revive China Society and the Tongmenghui. He is considered one of the most important figures of modern China, and his political life campaigning against Manchu rule in favor of a Chinese republic featured constant struggles and frequent periods of exile.

After the success of the 1911 Revolution, Sun proclaimed the establishment of the Republic of China but had to relinquish the presidency to general Yuan Shikai who controlled the powerful Beiyang Army, ultimately going into exile in Japan. He later returned to launch a revolutionary government in southern China to challenge the warlords who controlled much of the country following Yuan's death in 1916. In 1923, Sun invited representatives of the Communist International to Guangzhou to reorganize the KMT and formed the First United Front with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He did not live to see his party unify the country under his successor, Chiang Kai-shek, in the Northern Expedition. While residing in Beijing, Sun died of gallbladder cancer in 1925.

Uniquely among 20th-century Chinese leaders, Sun is revered in both Taiwan (where he is officially the "Father of the Nation") and in the People's Republic of China (where he is officially the "Forerunner of the Revolution") for his instrumental role in ending Qing rule and overseeing the conclusion of the Chinese dynastic system. His political philosophy, known as the Three Principles of the People, sought to modernise China by advocating for nationalism, democracy, and the livelihood of the people in an ethnically harmonious union (Zhonghua minzu).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The philosophy is commemorated as the National Anthem of the Republic of China, which Sun composed.

NamesEdit

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Silver coin: 1 yuan – Sun Yat Sen, 1927

Sun's genealogical name was Sun Deming (Cantonese: Template:Tlit; {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}).<ref name="singtao1">Singtao daily. Saturday edition. 23 October 2010. {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} section A18. Sun Yat-sen Xinhai revolution 100th anniversary edition {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}.</ref><ref name="sunbook2">Template:Cite book</ref> As a child, his milk name was Tai Tseung (Template:Tlit; {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}).<ref name="singtao1" /> In school, a teacher gave him the name Sun Wen (Template:Tlit; {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), which was used by Sun for most of his life. Sun's courtesy name was Zaizhi (Template:Tlit; {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), and his baptized name was Rixin (Template:Tlit; {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}).<ref name="Sunbook1">Template:Cite book</ref> While at school in British Hong Kong, he got the art name Yat-sen (Template:Zhi).<ref name="book2006">Template:Cite book</ref> Sun Zhongshan (Template:Tlit; {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, also romanized Chung Shan), the most popular of his Chinese names in China, is derived from his Japanese name Kikori Nakayama (Template:Nihongo2; Template:Tlit), the pseudonym given to him by Tōten Miyazaki when he was in hiding in Japan.<ref name="singtao1" /> His birthplace city was renamed Zhongshan in his honour likely shortly after his death in 1925. Zhongshan is one of the few cities named after people in China and has remained the official name of the city during Communist rule.

Early yearsEdit

Birthplace and early lifeEdit

Sun Deming was born on 12 November 1866 to Sun Dacheng and Madame Yang.<ref name="chron-nathall">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His birthplace was the village of Cuiheng, Xiangshan County (now Zhongshan City), Canton Province (now Guangdong).<ref name=chron-nathall /> He was of Hakka and Cantonese<ref name="作者:门杰丹">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} Template:Google translation</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> descent. His father owned very little land and worked as a tailor in Macau and as a journeyman and a porter.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> After finishing primary education and meeting childhood friend Lu Haodong,<ref name="singtao1" /> he moved to Honolulu in the Kingdom of Hawaii, where he lived a comfortable life of modest wealth supported by his elder brother Sun Mei.<ref name="Maui">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="KHON2SunMei">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="MauiSunPark">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="MauiCountySunPark">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref>

EducationEdit

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Sun Yat-sen (back row, fourth from right) and his family

During his stay in Honolulu, Sun began his education at the age of 10,<ref name="singtao1" /> attending secondary school in Hawaii.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> In 1878, after receiving a few years of local schooling, a 13-year-old Sun went to live with his elder brother Sun Mei,<ref name="singtao1" /> who would later make major contributions to overthrowing the Qing dynasty, and who financed Sun's attendance of the ʻIolani School.<ref name="Maui" /><ref name="KHON2SunMei" /><ref name="MauiSunPark" /><ref name="MauiCountySunPark" /> There, he studied English, British history, mathematics, science, and Christianity.<ref name="singtao1" /> Sun was initially unable to speak English, but quickly acquired it, received a prize for academic achievement from King Kalākaua, and graduated in 1882.<ref name="DrSenIolaniSchool">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He then attended Oahu College (now known as Punahou School) for one semester.<ref name="singtao1" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> By 1883, Sun's interest in Christianity had become deeply worrisome for his brother—who, seeing his conversion as inevitable, sent Sun back to China.<ref name="singtao1" />

Upon returning to China, a 17-year-old Sun met with his childhood friend Lu Haodong at the Beiji Temple ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) in Cuiheng,<ref name="singtao1" /> where villagers engaged in traditional folk healing and worshipped an effigy of the North Star God. Feeling contemptuous of these practices,<ref name="singtao1" /> Sun and Lu incurred the wrath of their fellow villagers by breaking the wooden idol; as a result, Sun's parents felt compelled to dispatch him to Hong Kong.<ref name="singtao1" /><ref name="big5">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In November 1883, Sun began attending the Diocesan Home and Orphanage on Eastern Street (now the Diocesan Boys' School),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and from 15 April 1884 he attended The Government Central School on Gough Street (now Queen's College), until graduating in 1886.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1886, Sun studied medicine at the Guangzhou Boji Hospital under the Christian missionary John Glasgow Kerr.<ref name="singtao1" /> According to his book "Kidnapped in London", in 1887 Sun heard of the opening of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (the forerunner of the University of Hong Kong).<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> He immediately sought to attend, and went on to obtain a license to practice medicine from the institution in 1892;<ref name="singtao1" /><ref name="book2006" /> out of a class of twelve students, Sun was one of two who graduated.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="singtao2">Singtao Daily. 28 February 2011. 特別策劃 section A10. "Sun Yat-sen Xinhai revolution 100th anniversary edition".</ref><ref name="scmp1999">South China Morning Post. "Birth of Sun heralds dawn of revolutionary era for China". 11 November 1999.</ref>

Religious views and Christian baptismEdit

In the early 1880s, Sun Mei had sent his brother to ʻIolani School, which was under the supervision of the Church of Hawaii and directed by an Anglican prelate, Alfred Willis, with the language of instruction being English. At the school, the young Sun first came in contact with Christianity.

Sun was later baptized in Hong Kong on 4 May 1884 by Rev. Charles Robert Hager,<ref>"...At present there are some seven members in the interior belonging to our mission, and two here, one I baptized last Sabbath, a young man who is attending the Government Central School. We had a very pleasant communion service yesterday..." – Hager to Clark, 5 May 1884, ABC 16.3.8: South China v.4, no.17, p.3</ref><ref>"...We had a pleasant communion yesterday and received one Chinaman into the church..." – Hager to Pond, 5 May 1884, ABC 16.3.8: South China v.4, no.18, p.3 postscript</ref><ref>Rev. C. R. Hager, 'The First Citizen of the Chinese Republic', The Medical Missionary v.22 1913, p.184</ref> an American missionary of the Congregational Church of the United States (American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions), to his brother's disdain. The minister would also develop a friendship with Sun.<ref>Bergère: 26</ref><ref name="Soong, 1997 p. 151–178">Soong, (1997) p. 151–178</ref> Sun attended To Tsai Church ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), founded by the London Missionary Society in 1888,<ref name="Dr. Sun Yat-sen Museum">Template:Citation</ref> while he studied medicine in Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese. Sun pictured a revolution as similar to the salvation mission of the Christian church. His conversion to Christianity was related to his revolutionary ideals and push for advancement.<ref name="Soong, 1997 p. 151–178" />

Becoming a revolutionaryEdit

Four BanditsEdit

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During the Qing-dynasty rebellion around 1888, Sun was in Hong Kong with a group of revolutionary thinkers, nicknamed the Four Bandits, at the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese.<ref name="bard">Bard, Solomon. Voices from the past: Hong Kong, 1842–1918. (2002). HK University Press. Template:ISBN. p. 183.</ref>

From Furen Literary Society to Revive China SocietyEdit

In 1891, Sun met revolutionary friends in Hong Kong including Yeung Ku-wan who was the leader and founder of the Furen Literary Society.<ref name="Curthoys">Curthoys, Ann; Lake, Marilyn (2005). Connected worlds: history in transnational perspective. ANU publishing. Template:ISBN. p. 101.</ref> The group was spreading the idea of overthrowing the Qing. In 1894, Sun wrote an 8,000-character petition to Qing Viceroy Li Hongzhang presenting his ideas for modernizing China.<ref name="Wei">Wei, Julie Lee. Myers Ramon Hawley. Gillin, Donald G. (1994). Prescriptions for saving China: selected writings of Sun Yat-sen. Hoover press. Template:ISBN.</ref><ref name="gtong146">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Bergère: 39–40</ref> He traveled to Tianjin to personally present the petition to Li but was not granted an audience.<ref>Bergère: 40–41</ref> After that experience, Sun turned irrevocably toward revolution. He left China for Hawaii and founded the Revive China Society, which was committed to revolutionizing China's prosperity. It was the first Chinese nationalist revolutionary society.<ref name="Yang 2023">Template:Cite book</ref> Members were drawn mainly from Chinese expatriates, especially from the lower social classes. The same month in 1894, the Furen Literary Society was merged with the Hong Kong chapter of the Revive China Society.<ref name="Curthoys" /> Thereafter, Sun became the secretary of the newly merged Revive China Society, which Yeung Ku-wan headed as president.<ref name="yang-bio">(Chinese) Yang, Bayun; Yang, Xing'an (2010). Yeung Ku-wan – A Biography Written by a Family Member. Bookoola. p. 17. Template:ISBN</ref> They disguised their activities in Hong Kong under the running of a business under the name "Kuen Hang Club"<ref>Template:Cite book, founder Tse Tsan-tai's account</ref>Template:Rp ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}).

Heaven and Earth Society and overseas travels to seek financial supportEdit

A "Heaven and Earth Society" sect known as Tiandihui had been around for a long time.<ref name="Pina">João de Pina-Cabral. (2002). Between China and Europe: person, culture and emotion in Macao. Berg publishing. Template:ISBN. p. 209.</ref> The group has also been referred to as the "three cooperating organizations", as well as the triads.<ref name="Pina" /> Sun mainly used the group to leverage his overseas travels to gain further financial and resource support for his revolution.<ref name="Pina" />

First Sino-Japanese WarEdit

In 1895, China suffered a serious defeat during the First Sino-Japanese War. There were two types of responses. One group of intellectuals contended that the Manchu Qing government could restore its legitimacy by successfully modernizing.<ref name="Bevir">Bevir, Mark (2010). Encyclopedia of Political Theory. Sage publishing. Template:ISBN. p 168.</ref> Stressing that overthrowing the Manchu would result in chaos and would lead to China being carved up by imperialists, intellectuals like Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao supported responding with initiatives like the Hundred Days' Reform.<ref name="Bevir" /> In another faction, Sun Yat-sen and others like Zou Rong wanted a revolution to replace the dynastic system with a modern nation-state in the form of a republic.<ref name="Bevir" /> The Hundred Days' reform turned out to be a failure by 1898.<ref>Lin, Xiaoqing Diana. (2006). Peking University: Chinese Scholarship And Intellectuals, 1898–1937. SUNY Press, Template:ISBN. p. 27.</ref>

First uprising and exileEdit

First Guangzhou UprisingEdit

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Plaque in London marking the site of a house at 4 Warwick Court, WC1, in which Sun Yat-sen lived in exile

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Letter from Sun Yat-sen to James Cantlie announcing to him that he has assumed the Presidency of the Provisional Republican Government of China, dated 21 January 1912

In the second year of the establishment of the Revive China Society, on 26 October 1895, the group planned and launched the First Guangzhou uprising against the Qing in Guangzhou.<ref name="gtong146" /> Yeung Ku-wan directed the uprising starting from Hong Kong.<ref name="yang-bio" /> However, plans were leaked out, and more than 70 members, including Lu Haodong, were captured by the Qing government. The uprising was a failure. Sun received financial support mostly from his brother, who sold most of his 12,000 acres of ranch and cattle in Hawaii.<ref name="Maui" /> Additionally, members of his family and relatives of Sun would take refuge at the home of his brother Sun Mei at Kamaole in Kula, Maui.<ref name="Maui" /><ref name="KHON2SunMei" /><ref name="MauiSunPark" /><ref name="MauiCountySunPark" /><ref name="MauiMagazine" />

Exile in the United KingdomEdit

While in exile in London in 1896, Sun raised money for his revolutionary party and to support uprisings in China. While the events leading up to it are unclear, Sun Yat-sen was detained at the Chinese Legation in London, where the Chinese secret service planned to smuggle him back to China to execute him for his revolutionary actions.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was released after 12 days by the efforts of James Cantlie, The Globe, The Times, and the Foreign Office, which left Sun a hero in the United Kingdom.Template:Efn James Cantlie, Sun's former teacher at the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, maintained a lifelong friendship with Sun and later wrote an early biography of him<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Sun wrote a book in 1897 about his detention, "Kidnapped in London."<ref name=":0" />

The bronze plaque of Sun is currently mounted on an outside wall of the building of "City Junior School" at 4 Gray's Inn Place.

Exile in JapanEdit

Sun traveled by way of Canada to Japan to begin his exile there. He arrived in Yokohama on 16 August 1897 and met with the Japanese politician Tōten Miyazaki. Most Japanese who actively worked with Sun were motivated by a pan-Asian opposition to Western imperialism.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In Japan, Sun also met Mariano Ponce, a diplomat of the First Philippine Republic.<ref>Thornber, Karen Laura. (2009). Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature. Harvard University Press. p. 404.</ref>

During the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine–American War, Sun helped Ponce procure weapons that had been salvaged from the Imperial Japanese Army and ship the weapons to the Philippines. By helping the Philippine Republic, Sun hoped that the Filipinos would retain their independence so that he could be sheltered in the country in staging another Chinese revolution. However, as the war ended in July 1902, the United States emerged victorious from a bitter three-year war against the Republic. Therefore, Sun did not have the opportunity to ally with the Philippines in his revolution in China.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In 1897, through an introduction by Miyazaki Toten, Sun Yat-sen met Tōyama Mitsuru of the political organization Genyosha. Through Tōyama, he received financial support for his activities and living expenses in Tokyo from Template:Ill. Additionally, his residence, a 2,000-square-meter mansion in Waseda-Tsurumaki-cho, was arranged by Inukai Tsuyoshi.

In 1899, the Boxer Rebellion occurred.<ref>義和団事件大辞林第三版</ref> The following year, Sun Yat-sen attempted another uprising in Huizhou, but it ended in failure. In 1902, despite already having a wife in China, he married the Japanese teenage girl Kaoru Otsuki.<ref name="Bunji-2010">Template:Cite journal</ref> Furthermore, he kept Template:Ill as a mistress and frequently had her accompany him.

From failed uprisings to revolutionEdit

Huizhou UprisingEdit

On 22 October 1900, Sun ordered the launch of the Huizhou Uprising to attack Huizhou and provincial authorities in Guangdong.<ref>Gao, James Zheng. (2009). Historical dictionary of modern China (1800–1949). Scarecrow Press. Template:ISBN. Chronology section.</ref> That came five years after the failed Guangzhou Uprising. This time, Sun appealed to the triads for help.<ref>Bergère: 86</ref> The uprising was another failure. Miyazaki, who participated in the revolt with Sun, wrote an account of the revolutionary effort under the title "33-Year Dream" ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) in 1902.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Frédéric, Louis. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. Template:ISBN. p. 651.</ref><ref>三十三年落花夢 Taiwan Ebook, National Central Library</ref>

Getting support from Siamese ChineseEdit

In 1903, Sun made a secret trip to Bangkok in which he sought funds for his cause in Southeast Asia. His loyal followers published newspapers, providing invaluable support to the dissemination of his revolutionary principles and ideals among Siamese Chinese in Siam. In Bangkok, Sun visited Yaowarat Road, in the city's Chinatown. On that street, Sun gave a speech claiming that Overseas Chinese were "the Mother of the Revolution." He also met the local Chinese merchant Seow Houtseng,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> who sent financial support to him.

Sun's speech on Yaowarat Road was commemorated by the street later being named "Sun Yat Sen Street" or "Soi Sun Yat Sen" (Template:Langx) in his honour.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Getting support from American ChineseEdit

According to Lee Yun-ping, chairman of the Chinese historical society, Sun needed a certificate to enter the United States since the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 would have otherwise blocked him.<ref name="sfworldjournal">Template:Cite news</ref>

In March 1904, while residing in Kula, Maui, Sun Yat-sen obtained a Certificate of Hawaiian Birth, issued by the Territory of Hawaii, stating that "he was born in the Hawaiian Islands on the 24th day of November, A.D. 1870."<ref name="Certificate of Live Birth in Hawaii">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=smys00honu /> He renounced it after it served its purpose to circumvent the Chinese Exclusion Act.<ref name="smys00honu">Smyser, A.A. (2000). Sun Yat-sen's strong links to Hawaii. Honolulu Star Bulletin. "Sun renounced it in due course. It did, however, help him circumvent the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which became applicable when Hawaii was annexed to the United States in 1898."</ref> Official files of the United States show that Sun had United States nationality, moved to China with his family at age 4, and returned to Hawaii 10 years later.<ref name="NARA">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} Note that one immigration official recorded that Sun was born in Kula, a district of Maui, Hawaii.</ref>

On 6 April 1904, on his first attempt to enter the United States, Sun Yat-sen landed in San Francisco. He was detained and faced with possible deportation.<ref name="sfworldjournal" /> Sun, represented by the law firm of Ralston & Siddons, based in Washington DC, filed an appeal with the Commissioner-General of Immigration on 26 April 1904. On 28 April 1904, the acting secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor in a four-page decision contained in the case file, set aside the order of deportation and ordered the Commissioner of Immigration in San Francisco to "permit the said Sun Yat-sen to land." Sun was then freed to embark on his fundraising tour in the United States.<ref name="sfworldjournal" />

Returned to exile in JapanEdit

In 1900, Sun Yat-sen temporarily exiled himself to Japan again. During his stay in Japan, he expressed his thoughts to Inukai Tsuyoshi, saying, "The Meiji Restoration is the first step of the Chinese revolution, and the Chinese revolution is the second step of the Meiji Restoration."<ref>『孫文選集（第三巻）』社会思想社、1989、 Template:ISBN</ref>

Around this time, Sun married Soong Ching-ling, the second daughter of Soong Jiashu, who was also a Hakka like him. There are various theories about the year of their marriage, but it is generally believed to have taken place between 1913 and 1916 while Sun was exiled in Japan. The arrangement of their marriage was supported by Umeya Shokichi, a Japanese supporter who provided financial aid.<ref name="NHK2007-02-25">2007年2月25日NHK BS1 『世界から見たニッポン～大正編』</ref><ref name="yomiuri2002-10">Template:Cite book</ref>

At that time, Fusanosuke Kuhara, a prominent figure in Japan's political and business circles, invited Sun to his villa, the Nihonkan, located where the current restaurant "Kochuan" in Shirokane Happo-en stands. Kuhara offered Sun the newly built "Orchid Room" to encourage and support his friend living in a foreign land.

The Orchid Room was equipped with a secret escape route known as "Sun Yat-sen's Escape Passage." This precautionary measure included a hidden door behind the fireplace, which led to an underground tunnel, providing an escape route in case of emergencies.

Unifying forces of Tongmenghui in TokyoEdit

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A letter with Sun's seal commencing the Tongmenghui in Hong Kong

In 1904, Sun Yat-sen came about with the goal "to expel the Tatar barbarians (specifically, the Manchu), to revive Zhonghua, to establish a Republic, and to distribute land equally among the people" ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}).<ref name="chinahistvol1">計秋楓, 朱慶葆. (2001). 中國近代史, Volume 1. Chinese University Press. Template:ISBN. p. 468.</ref> One of Sun's major legacies was the creation of his political philosophy of the Three Principles of the People. These Principles included the principle of nationalism (minzu, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), of democracy (minquan, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), and of welfare (minsheng, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}).<ref name="chinahistvol1" />

On 20 August 1905, Sun joined forces with revolutionary Chinese students studying in Tokyo to form the unified group Tongmenghui (United League), which sponsored uprisings in China.<ref name="chinahistvol1" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> By 1906 the number of Tongmenghui members reached 963.<ref name="chinahistvol1" />

Getting support from Malayan ChineseEdit

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Interior of the Wan Qing Yuan featuring Sun's items and photos

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The Sun Yat-sen Museum in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, where he planned the Xinhai Revolution.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Sun's notability and popularity extended beyond the Greater China region, particularly to Nanyang (Southeast Asia), where a large concentration of overseas Chinese resided in Malaya (Malaysia and Singapore). In Singapore, he met the local Chinese merchants Teo Eng Hock ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), Tan Chor Nam ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) and Lim Nee Soon ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), which mark the commencement of direct support from the Nanyang Chinese. The Singapore chapter of the Tongmenghui was established on 6 April 1906,<ref name="yanq">Yan, Qinghuang. (2008). The Chinese in Southeast Asia and beyond: socioeconomic and political dimensions. World Scientific publishing.Template:ISBN. pp. 182–187.</ref> but some records claim the founding date to be end of 1905.<ref name="yanq" /> The villa used by Sun was known as Wan Qing Yuan.<ref name="yanq" /><ref name="wanqingyuan1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Singapore then was the headquarters of the Tongmenghui.<ref name="yanq" />

After founding the Tongmenghui, Sun advocated the establishment of the Chong Shing Yit Pao as the alliance's mouthpiece to promote revolutionary ideas. Later, he initiated the establishment of reading clubs across Singapore and Malaysia to disseminate revolutionary ideas by the lower class through public readings of newspaper stories. The United Chinese Library, founded on 8 August 1910, was one such reading club, first set up at leased property on the second floor of the Wan He Salt Traders in North Boat Quay.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The first actual United Chinese Library building was built between 1908 and 1911 below Fort Canning, on 51 Armenian Street, and commenced operations in 1912. The library was set up as a part of the 50 reading rooms by the Chinese republicans to serve as an information station and liaison point for the revolutionaries. In 1987, the library was moved to its present site at Cantonment Road.

UprisingsEdit

On 1 December 1907, Sun led the Zhennanguan Uprising against the Qing at Friendship Pass, which is the border between Guangxi and Vietnam.<ref name="Khoo">Khoo, Salma Nasution. (2008). Sun Yat Sen in Penang. Areca publishing. Template:ISBN.</ref> The uprising failed after seven days of fighting.<ref name="Khoo" /><ref>Tang Jiaxuan (2011). Heavy Storm and Gentle Breeze: A Memoir of China's Diplomacy. HarperCollins publishing. Template:ISBN.</ref> In 1907, there were a total of four failed uprisings, including Huanggang uprising, Huizhou seven women lake uprising and Qinzhou uprising.<ref name="yanq" /> In 1908, two more uprisings failed: the Qin-lian Uprising and Hekou Uprising.<ref name="yanq" />

Anti-Sun factionalismEdit

Because of the failures, Sun's leadership was challenged by elements from within the Tongmenghui who wished to remove him as leader. In Tokyo, members from the recently merged Restoration society raised doubts about Sun's credentials.<ref name="yanq" /> Tao Chengzhang and Zhang Binglin publicly denounced Sun in an open leaflet, "A declaration of Sun Yat-sen's Criminal Acts by the Revolutionaries in Southeast Asia",<ref name="yanq" /> which was printed and distributed in reformist newspapers like Nanyang Zonghui Bao.<ref name="yanq" /><ref>Nanyang Zonghui bao. The Union Times paper. 11 November 1909 p2.</ref> The goal was to target Sun as a leader leading a revolt only for profiteering.<ref name="yanq" />

The revolutionaries were polarized and split between pro-Sun and anti-Sun camps.<ref name="yanq" /> Sun publicly fought off comments about how he had something to gain financially from the revolution.<ref name="yanq" /> However, by 19 July 1910, the Tongmenghui headquarters had to relocate from Singapore to Penang to reduce the anti-Sun activities.<ref name="yanq" /> It was also in Penang that Sun and his supporters would launch the first Chinese "daily" newspaper, the Kwong Wah Yit Poh, in December 1910.<ref name="Khoo" />

1911 revolutionEdit

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The Revolutionary Army of the Wuchang Uprising fighting in the Battle of Yangxia

To sponsor more uprisings, Sun made a personal plea for financial aid at the Penang conference, held on 13 November 1910 in Malaya.<ref name="Bergere188">Bergère: 188</ref> The high-powered preparatory meeting of Sun's supporters was subsequently held in Ipoh, Singapore, at the villa of Teh Lay Seng, the chairman of the Tungmenghui, to raise funds for the Huanghuagang Uprising, also known as the Yellow Flower Mound Uprising.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The Ipoh leaders were Teh Lay Seng, Wong I Ek, Lee Guan Swee, and Lee Hau Cheong.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The leaders launched a major drive for donations across the Malay Peninsula<ref name=Bergere188 /> and raised HK$187,000.<ref name=Bergere188 />

On 27 April 1911, the revolutionary Huang Xing led the Yellow Flower Mound Uprising against the Qing. The revolt failed and ended in disaster. The bodies of only 72 revolutionaries were identified of the 86 that were found.<ref name="gtong195">王恆偉. (2005) (2006) 中國歷史講堂 No. 5 清. 中華書局. Template:ISBN. pp. 195–198.</ref> The revolutionaries are remembered as martyrs.<ref name="gtong195" /> Despite the failure of this uprising, which was due to a leak, it was successful in triggering off the trend of nation-wide revolts.<ref>Bronze Relief of the 1911 Guangzhou (廣州) Uprising in Taipei Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine (YouTube)</ref>

On 10 October 1911, the military Wuchang Uprising took place and was led again by Huang Xing. The uprising expanded to the Xinhai Revolution, also known as the "Chinese Revolution", to overthrow the last emperor, Puyi.<ref>Carol, Steven. (2009). Encyclopedia of Days: Start the Day with History. iUniverse publishing. Template:ISBN.</ref> Sun had no direct involvement in it, as he was in Denver, Colorado, and had spent much of the year in the United States in search of support from Chinese Americans. That put Huang in charge of the revolution that ended over 2000 years of imperial rule in China. On 12 October, when Sun learned of the successful rebellion against the Qing emperor from press reports, he returned to China from the United States and was accompanied by his closest foreign advisor, the American "General" Homer Lea, an adventurer whom Sun had met in London when they attempted to arrange British financing for the future Chinese republic. Both sailed for China, arriving there on 21 December 1911.<ref>Bergère: 210</ref> Template:Clear left

Republic of China with multiple governmentsEdit

Provisional governmentEdit

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Portrait of Sun Yat-sen (1921) by Li Tiefu

On 29 December 1911, a meeting of representatives from provinces in Nanjing elected Sun as the provisional president.<ref>Lane, Roger deWardt. (2008). Encyclopedia Small Silver Coins. Template:ISBN.</ref> 1 January 1912 was set as the epoch of the new republican calendar.<ref name="Well">Welland, Sasah Su-ling. (2007). A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman Littlefield Publishing. Template:ISBN. p. 87.</ref> Li Yuanhong was made provisional vice-president, and Huang Xing became the minister of the army. It was argued Sun was a 'compromise candidate' to end an impasse and power struggle between Li Yuanhong and Huang Xing over the role of the Generalissimo.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> A new provisional government for the Republic of China was created, along with a provisional constitution. Sun is credited for funding the revolutions and for keeping revolutionary spirit alive, even after a series of false starts. His successful merger of smaller revolutionary groups into a single coherent party provided a better base for those who shared revolutionary ideals. Under Sun's provisional government, several innovations were introduced, such as the aforementioned calendar system, and fashionable Zhongshan suits.

Beiyang governmentEdit

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Yuan Shikai, who was in control of the Beiyang Army, had been promised the position of president of the Republic of China if he could get the Qing court to abdicate.<ref name="Fu" /> On 12 February 1912, the Emperor did abdicate the throne.<ref name="Well" /> Sun stepped down as president, and Yuan became the new provisional president in Beijing on 10 March 1912.<ref name="Fu" /> The provisional government did not have any military forces of its own. Its control over elements of the new army that had mutinied was limited, and significant forces still had not declared against the Qing.

Sun Yat-sen sent telegrams to the leaders of all provinces to request them to elect and to establish the National Assembly in 1912.<ref>Bergère: 226</ref> In May 1912, the legislative assembly moved from Nanjing to Beijing, with its 120 members divided between members of the Tongmenghui and a republican party that supported Yuan Shikai.<ref name="chien">Ch'ien Tuan-sheng. The Government and Politics of China 1912–1949. Harvard University Press, 1950; rpr. Stanford University Press. Template:ISBN. pp. 83–91.</ref> Many revolutionary members were already alarmed by Yuan's ambitions and the northern-based Beiyang government.

New Nationalist party in 1912, failed Second Revolution and new exileEdit

The Tongmenghui member Song Jiaoren quickly tried to control the assembly. He mobilized the old Tongmenghui at the core with the mergers of a number of new small parties to form a new political party, the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party, commonly abbreviated as "KMT") on 25 August 1912 at Huguang Guild Hall, Beijing.<ref name="chien" /> The 1912–1913 National assembly election was considered a huge success for the KMT, which won 269 of the 596 seats in the lower house and 123 of the 274 seats in the upper house.<ref name="Fu">Fu, Zhengyuan. (1993). Autocratic tradition and Chinese politics(Cambridge University Press. Template:ISBN). pp. 153–154.</ref><ref name="chien" /> In retaliation, the KMT leader Song Jiaoren was assassinated, almost certainly by a secret order of Yuan, on 20 March 1913.<ref name="Fu" /> The Second Revolution took place by Sun and KMT military forces trying to overthrow Yuan's forces of about 80,000 men in an armed conflict in July 1913.<ref>Ernest Young, "Politics in the Aftermath of Revolution", in John King Fairbank, ed., The Cambridge History of China: Republican China 1912–1949, Part 1 (Cambridge University Press, 1983; Template:ISBN), p. 228.</ref> The revolt against Yuan was unsuccessful. In August 1913, Sun fled to Japan, where he later enlisted financial aid by the politician and industrialist Fusanosuke Kuhara.<ref>Altman, Albert A., and Harold Z. Schiffrin. "Sun Yat-Sen and the Japanese: 1914–16." Modern Asian Studies, vol. 6, no. 4, 1972, pp. 385–400. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/311539</ref>

Warlords chaosEdit

In 1915, Yuan proclaimed the Empire of China with himself as Emperor of China. Sun took part in the National Protection War of the Constitutional Protection Movement and also supported bandit leaders like Bai Lang during the Bai Lang Rebellion, which marked the beginning of the Warlord Era. In 1915, Sun wrote to the Second International, a socialist-based organization in Paris, and asked it to send a team of specialists to help China set up the world's first socialist republic.<ref>South China Morning post. Sun Yat-sen's durable and malleable legacy. 26 April 2011.</ref> The same year, Sun received the Indian communist M.N. Roy as a guest.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> There were then many theories and proposals of what China could be. In the political mess, both Sun Yat-sen and Xu Shichang were announced as president of the Republic of China.<ref>South China morning post. 1913–1922. 9 November 2003.</ref>

Alliance with Communist Party and Northern ExpeditionEdit

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Guangzhou militarist governmentEdit

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(L-R): Liao Zhongkai, Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching-ling at the founding of the Whampoa Military Academy in 1924

China had become divided among regional military leaders. Sun saw the danger and returned to China in 1916 to advocate Chinese reunification. In 1921, he started a self-proclaimed military government in Guangzhou and was elected Grand Marshal.<ref name="Bergere273">Bergère & Lloyd: 273</ref> According to historian William C. Kirby, between 1912 and 1927, three governments were set up in South China: the Provisional government in Nanjing (1912), the Military government in Guangzhou (1923–1925), and the National government in Guangzhou and later Wuhan (1925–1927).<ref>Kirby, William C. [2000] (2000). State and economy in republican China: a handbook for scholars, volume 1. Harvard publishing. Template:ISBN. p. 59.</ref> The governments in the south were established to rival the Beiyang government in the north.<ref name=Bergere273 /> Yuan Shikai had banned the KMT. The short-lived Chinese Revolutionary Party was a temporary replacement for the KMT. On 10 October 1919, Sun resurrected the KMT with the new name Chung-kuo Kuomintang, or "Nationalist Party of China."<ref name="chien" />

First United FrontEdit

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Sun Yat-sen (seated) and Chiang Kai-shek

Sun was now convinced that the only hope for a unified China lay in a military conquest from his base in the south, followed by a period of Template:Ill, which would culminate in the transition to democracy. To hasten the conquest of China, he began a policy of active co-operation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Sun and the Soviet Union's Adolph Joffe signed the Sun-Joffe Manifesto in January 1923.<ref name="Tung1">Tung, William L. (1968). The political institutions of modern China. Springer publishing. Template:ISBN. pp. 92, 106.</ref> Sun received help from the Comintern for his acceptance of communist members into his KMT. Sun received assistance from Soviet advisor Mikhail Borodin, whom Sun described as his "Lafayette".<ref name="Crean">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp The Russian revolutionary and socialist leader Vladimir Lenin praised Sun and his KMT for its ideology, principles, attempts at social reformation, and fight against foreign imperialism.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Sun also returned the praise by calling Lenin a "great man" and indicated that he wished to follow the same path as Lenin.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1923, after having been in contact with Lenin and other Moscow communists, Sun sent representatives to study the Red Army, and in turn, the Soviets sent representatives to help reorganize the KMT at Sun's request.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

With the Soviets' help, Sun was able to develop the military power needed for the Northern Expedition against the military at the north. He established the Whampoa Military Academy near Guangzhou with Chiang Kai-shek as the commandant of the National Revolutionary Army (NRA).<ref>Gao. James Zheng. (2009). Historical dictionary of modern China (1800–1949). Scarecrow press. Template:ISBN. p. 251.</ref> Other Whampoa leaders include Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin as political instructors. This full collaboration was called the First United Front.

Financial concernsEdit

In 1924 Sun appointed his brother-in-law T. V. Soong to set up the first Chinese central bank, the Canton Central Bank.<ref>Spence, Jonathan D. [1990] (1990). The search for modern China. WW Norton & company publishing. Template:ISBN. p. 345.</ref> To establish national capitalism and a banking system was a major objective for the KMT.<ref>Ji, Zhaojin. (2003). A history of modern Shanghai banking: the rise and decline of China's finance capitalism. M.E. Sharpe Publishing. Template:ISBN. p. 165.</ref> However, Sun met opposition by the Canton Merchant Volunteers Corps Uprising against him.

Final yearsEdit

Final speechesEdit

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Sun (seated, right) and his wife Soong Ching-ling (seated next to him) in Kobe, Japan in 1924

In February 1923, Sun made a presentation to the Students' Union in Hong Kong University and declared that the corruption of China and the peace, order, and good government of Hong Kong had turned him into a revolutionary.<ref>Ho, Virgil K.Y. (2005). Understanding Canton: Rethinking Popular Culture in the Republican Period. Oxford University Press. Template:ISBN</ref><ref>Carroll, John Mark. Edge of Empires:Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong. Harvard University Press. Template:ISBN</ref> The same year, he delivered a speech in which he proclaimed his Three Principles of the People as the foundation of the country and the Five-Yuan Constitution as the guideline for the political system and bureaucracy. Part of the speech was made into the National Anthem of the Republic of China.

On 10 November 1924, Sun traveled north to Tianjin and delivered a speech to suggest a gathering for a "national conference" for the Chinese people. He called for the end of warlord rules and the abolition of all unequal treaties with the Western powers.<ref>Ma Yuxin (2010). Women journalists and feminism in China, 1898–1937. Cambria Press. Template:ISBN. p. 156.</ref> Two days later, he traveled to Beijing to discuss the future of the country despite his deteriorating health and the ongoing civil war of the warlords. Among the people whom he met was the Muslim warlord General Ma Fuxiang, who informed Sun that he would welcome Sun's leadership.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 28 November 1924 Sun traveled to Japan and gave a speech on Pan-Asianism at Kobe, Japan.<ref>Calder, Kent; Ye, Min (2010). The Making of Northeast Asia. Stanford University Press. Template:ISBN.</ref>

Illness and deathEdit

For many years, it was popularly believed that Sun died of liver cancer. On 26 January 1925, Sun underwent an exploratory laparotomy at Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH) to investigate a long-term illness. It was performed by the head of the Department of Surgery, Adrian S. Taylor, who stated that the procedure "revealed extensive involvement of the liver by carcinoma" and that Sun had only about ten days to live. Sun was hospitalized, and his condition was treated with radium.<ref name="barth:5">Template:Cite journal</ref> Sun survived the initial ten-day period, and on 18 February, against the advice of doctors, he was transferred to the KMT headquarters and treated with traditional Chinese medicine. That was also unsuccessful, and he died on 12 March, at the age of 58.<ref name=":2">Template:Cite news</ref> Contemporary reports in The New York Times,<ref name=":2" /> Time,<ref name=":3">Template:Cite news</ref> and the Chinese newspaper Qun Qiang Bao all reported the cause of death as liver cancer, based on Taylor's observation.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He also left a short political will ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), penned by Wang Jingwei, which had a widespread influence in the subsequent development of the Republic of China and Taiwan.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Sun Yat-sen on death bed. Picture at The Museum of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in Cuiheng

His body then was preserved in mineral oil<ref name=":4">Template:Cite book</ref> and taken to the Temple of Azure Clouds, a Buddhist shrine in the Western Hills a few miles outside Beijing.<ref name="Leinwand2002">Template:Cite book Template:Dead link</ref> A glass-covered steel coffin was sent by the Soviet Union to the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall at Temple of Azure Clouds as a permanent repository for the body but was ultimately declined by the family as unsuitable.<ref name="australia">Template:Cite news</ref> The body was embalmed for preservation by Peking Union Medical College who reportedly guaranteed its preservation for 150 years.<ref name="australia"/>

In 1926, construction began on a majestic mausoleum at the foot of Purple Mountain in Nanjing, which was completed in the spring of 1929. On 1 June 1929, Sun's remains were moved from Beijing and interred in the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum.

By pure chance, in May 2016, an American pathologist, Rolf F. Barth, was visiting the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Guangzhou when he noticed a faded copy of the original autopsy report on display. The autopsy was performed immediately after Sun's death by James Cash, a pathologist at PUMCH. Based on a tissue sample, Cash concluded that the cause of death was an adenocarcinoma in the gallbladder that had metastasized to the liver. In modern China, liver cancer is far more common than gallbladder cancer. Although the incidence rates for either one in 1925 are not known, if one assumes that they were similar to modern rates, the original diagnosis by Taylor was a reasonable conclusion. From the time of Sun's death to the appearance of Barth's report<ref name="barth:5" /> in the Chinese Journal of Cancer in September 2016, Sun's true cause of death was not reported in any English-language publication. Even in Chinese-language sources, it appeared in only one non-medical online report in 2013.<ref name="barth:5" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

LegacyEdit

Power struggleEdit

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After Sun's death, a power struggle between his young protégé Chiang Kai-shek and his old revolutionary comrade Wang Jingwei split the KMT. At stake in the struggle was the right to lay claim to Sun's ambiguous legacy. In 1927, Chiang married Soong Mei-ling, a sister of Sun's widow Soong Ching-ling, and he could now claim to be a brother-in-law of Sun. When the Communists and the Kuomintang split in 1927, which marked the start of the Chinese Civil War, each group claimed to be his true heirs, and the conflict that continued until World War II. Sun's widow, Soong Ching-ling, sided with the Communists during the Chinese Civil War and was critical of Chiang's regime since the Shanghai massacre in 1927. She served from 1949 to 1981 as vice-president (or vice-chairwoman) of the People's Republic of China and as honorary president shortly before her death in 1981.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personality cultEdit

A personality cult in the Republic of China was centered on Sun and his successor, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. The cult was created after Sun Yat-sen died. Chinese Muslim generals and imams participated in the personality cult and the one-party state, with Muslim General Ma Bufang making people bow to Sun's portrait and listen to the national anthem during a Tibetan and Mongol religious ceremony for the Qinghai Lake god.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Quotes from the Qur'an and the Hadith were used by Hui Muslims to justify Chiang's rule over China.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

The Kuomintang's constitution designated Sun as the party president. After his death, the Kuomintang opted to keep that language in its constitution to honor his memory forever. The party has since been headed by a director-general (1927–1975) and a chairman (since 1975), who discharge the functions of the president.Template:Citation needed

Though he took a stance against idolatry in life, Sun sometimes became worshiped as a god among people. For example, a KMT committee member Hsieh Kun-hong controversially referred to Sun as having "become immortal" after death under the posthumous name of "Great Merciful True Monarch" (Template:Lang-zh) in 2021. Sun is already worshipped in the syncretic Vietnamese religion of Caodaism.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Father of the NationEdit

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Statue of Sun's Mausoleum in Nanjing, with a Kuomintang flag on the ceiling

Sun Yat-sen remains unique among 20th-century Chinese leaders for having a high reputation in both Mainland China and Taiwan. In Taiwan, he is seen as the Father of the Republic of China and is known by the posthumous name Father of the Nation, Mr. Sun Zhongshan (Template:Lang-zh, and the one-character space is a traditional homage symbol).<ref name="sunbook2" />

Forerunner of revolutionEdit

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Sun Yat-sen tribute in Tiananmen Square in front of the Monument to the People's Heroes, 2021

In Mainland China, Sun is seen as a Chinese nationalist, a proto-socialist, and the first president of a Republican China and is highly regarded as the Forerunner of the Revolution ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}).<ref name="Tung1" /> He is even mentioned by name in the preamble to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. In recent years, the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party has increasingly invoked Sun, partly as a way of bolstering Chinese nationalism in light of the Chinese economic reform and partly to increase connections with supporters of the Kuomintang on Taiwan, which the People's Republic of China sees as allies against Taiwan independence. Sun's tomb was one of the first stops made by the leaders of both the Kuomintang and the People First Party on their pan-blue visit to mainland China in 2005.<ref>Rosecrance, Richard N. Stein, Arthur A. (2006). No more states?: globalization, national self-determination, and terrorism. Rowman & Littlefield publishing. Template:ISBN. p. 269.</ref> A massive portrait of Sun continues to appear in Tiananmen Square for May Day and National Day.

In 1956, Mao Zedong said, "Let us pay tribute to our great revolutionary forerunner, Dr. Sun Yat-sen!... he bequeathed to us much that is useful in the sphere of political thought."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Xi Jinping incorporates Sun's legacy into his discourse on national rejuvenation.<ref name=":Shan2">Template:Cite book</ref> Xi describes Sun as the first person to propose a method for Chinese revival, including adopting the first blueprint for China's modernization.<ref name=":Shan2" />

New Three Principles of the PeopleEdit

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Sun's Three Principles of the People has been reinterpreted by the Chinese Communist Party to argue that communism is a necessary conclusion of them and thus provide legitimacy for the government. This reinterpretation of the Three Principles of the People is commonly referred to as the New Three Principles of the People (Template:Lang-zh, also translated as "neo-tridemism"), a word coined by Mao's 1940 essay On New Democracy in which he argued that the Communist Party is a better enforcer of the Three Principles of the People compared to the bourgeois Kuomintang and that the new three principles are about allying with the communists and the Russians (Soviets) and supporting the peasants and the workers.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Proponents of the New Three Principles of the People claim that Sun's book Three Principles of the People acknowledges that the principles of welfare is inherently socialistic and communistic.<ref>Template:Cite wikisource</ref>

During the 90th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution in 2001, former CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin claimed that Sun supposedly advocated for the "New Three Principles of the People."<ref name="shanghaiist">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2001, Sun's granddaughter Lily Sun said that the Chinese Communists were distorting Sun's legacy. She again voiced her displeasure in 2002 in a private letter to Jiang about the distortion of history.<ref name="shanghaiist" /> In 2008 Jiang Zemin was willing to offer US$10 million to sponsor a Xinhai Revolution anniversary celebration event. According to Ming Pao, she did not take the money because then she would not "have the freedom to properly communicate the Revolution."<ref name="shanghaiist" />

KMT emblem removal caseEdit

In 1981, Lily Sun took a trip to Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing. The emblem of the KMT had been removed from the top of his sacrificial hall at the time of her visit but was later restored. On another visit in May 2011, she was surprised to find the four-character "General Rules of Meetings" ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), a document that Sun wrote in reference to Robert's Rules of Order had been removed from a stone carving.<ref name="shanghaiist" />

Founding father of the nation debateEdit

In 1940, the Republic of China (ROC) government had bestowed the title of "father of the nation" on Sun. However, after 1949, as a result of the Chiang regime's arrival in Taiwan, his "father of the nation" designation continued only in Taiwan.<ref name="foundingfatherdebate">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Sun visited Taiwan briefly on only three occasions (in 1900, 1913, and 1918) or four by counting 1924, when his boat had stopped in Keelung Harbor, but he did not disembark.<ref name="foundingfatherdebate"/>

In November 2004, the Taiwanese Ministry of Education proposed that Sun was not the father of Taiwan. Instead, Sun was a foreigner from mainland China.<ref name="twp1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Taiwanese Education Minister Tu Cheng-sheng and the Examination Yuan member Template:Interlanguage link, both of whom supported the proposal, had their portraits pelted with eggs in protest.<ref name="tai2004">Template:Cite news</ref> At a Sun Yat-sen statue in Kaohsiung, a 70-year-old retired soldier of the Republic of China committed suicide on Sun's birthday, 12 November, to protest the ministry's proposal.<ref name="twp1" /><ref name="tai2004" />

ViewsEdit

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Western cultureEdit

As a lifelong Christian who never left Christianity, Sun Yat-sen was a loyal follower of Western modernity and Christianity<ref name="v769">Template:Cite book</ref> and saw it as the best way to develop the Chinese nation. He went on foreign trips to gather support and resources of Western and Christian nations.<ref name="e553">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was highly critical of anything from ancient Chinese which did not confirm to Western standards and idols. This led him and his group to break idols and denounce Chinese medicine amongst other things.<ref name="j828">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="e624">Template:Cite book</ref>

Economic developmentEdit

Sun Yat-sen spent years in Hawaii as a student in the late 1870s and early 1880s and was highly impressed with the economic development that he saw there. He used the Kingdom of Hawaii as a model to develop his vision of a technologically modern, politically independent, actively anti-imperialist China.<ref>Lorenz Gonschor, "Revisiting the Hawaiian Influence on the Political Thought of Sun Yat-sen." Journal of Pacific History 52.1 (2017): 52–67.</ref> Sun, an important pioneer of international development, proposed in the 1920s international institutions of the sort that appeared after World War II. He focused on China, with its vast potential and weak base of mostly local entrepreneurs.<ref>Eric Helleiner, "Sun Yat-sen as a Pioneer of International Development." History of Political Economy 50.S1 (2018): 76–93.</ref>

His key proposal was socialism. He proposed:

The State will take over all the large enterprises; we shall encourage and protect enterprises which may reasonably be entrusted to the people; the nation will possess equality with other nations; every Chinese will be equal to every other Chinese both politically and in his opportunities of economic advancement.<ref>Stephen Shen, and Robert Payne, Sun Yat-Sen: A Portrait (1946) p 182</ref>

He also proposed, "If we use existing foreign capital to build up a future communist society in China, half the work will bring double the results."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He also said, "It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Sun promoted the ideas of the economist Henry George and was influenced by Georgist ideas on land ownership and a land value tax.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

CultureEdit

Sun supported natalism and had eugenic ideals.<ref name=":5">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp He favored premarital health examinations, sterilization of those perceived as unfit, and other programs for socially engineering China's population.<ref name=":5" />Template:Rp In Sun's view, China had only endured Western invasions and colonial rule because of its large population.<ref name=":5" />Template:Rp Those views led him to oppose the use of birth control.<ref name=":5" />Template:Rp

Pan-AsianismEdit

Sun was a proponent of Pan-Asianism. He said that Asia was the "cradle of the world's oldest civilisation" and that "even the ancient civilisations of the West, of Greece and Rome, had their origins on Asiatic soil." He thought that it was only in recent times that Asians "gradually degenerated and become weak."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> For Sun, "Pan-Asianism is based on the principle of the Rule of Right, and justifies the avenging of wrongs done to others." He advocated overthrowing the Western "Rule of Might" and "seeking a civilisation of peace and equality and the emancipation of all races."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Relationship with JapanEdit

Meiji Restoration and Sun Yat-sen's Revolutionary ViewsEdit

According to Template:Ill, one of the reasons why figures like Miyazaki Toten, Template:Ill, and Template:Ill supported Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary movement was because the ideals of the Meiji Restoration or the Freedom and People's Rights Movement could not be realized in Japan, and they sought to compensate for that failure.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

However, Sun Yat-sen himself stated the following in 1919:

The Chinese Nationalist Party is, after all, the revolutionaries of Japan from 50 years ago. Japan, a weak country in the East, was fortunate to have revolutionaries from the Meiji Restoration, who, for the first time, rallied and transformed Japan from a weak country to a strong one. Our revolutionaries also followed the path of Japan's revolutionaries, seeking to transform China.<ref>「中国の青島回収につき朝日新聞記者に回答せる書簡」1919年,『孫文選集』第三巻所収</ref>

In 1923, he also said:

Japan's Meiji Restoration was the cause of the Chinese revolution, and the Chinese revolution was the result of Japan's Meiji Restoration. Both are originally connected and work together to achieve the revival of East Asia.<ref>「犬養毅への書簡」1923年,『孫文選集』第三巻所収</ref>

Based on his empathy for the Meiji Restoration, Sun Yat-sen sought collaboration between Japan and China. For him, Japan's Twenty-One Demands on China represented a betrayal of the "revolutionary aspirations" of the Meiji patriots and advanced Japan's policy of aggression against China.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Relationship with the JapaneseEdit

During his lifetime, Sun Yat-sen had a wide range of relationships with Japanese people.<ref>Series: The 100th Anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution - NHK Classics (Video and Still Images) NHK Archives</ref> Through the mediation of Inukai Tsuyoshi, he became acquainted with Miyazaki Toten,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Tōyama Mitsuru, and Uchida Ryōhei, with whom he also had ideological exchanges and received financial support.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In addition, he received financial aid from businessmen such as Matsukata Kōjirō, Template:Ill, stock trader Template:Ill, and Umeya Shōkichi.<ref name="NHK2007-02-25" /><ref name="yomiuri2002-10" /> One of his supporters during his stay in Japan was also the great-grandfather of manga artist Template:Ill.

Additionally, Sasaki Tōichi of the Imperial Japanese Army served as a military advisor to Sun. He also became friends with Minakata Kumagusu, and their friendship deepened after they met while Sun was in exile in London.<ref>日本孫文研究会『孫文と南方熊楠』『孫文と華僑』『孫文とアジア―1990年8月国際学術討論会報告集』汲古書院</ref>

Great Asianism LectureEdit

The Great Asianism Lecture refers to the speech given by Sun Yat-sen on November 29, 1924, the day after his meeting with Tōyama Mitsuru in Kobe. It was delivered at the auditorium of the Kobe Prefectural Girls' High School, located where the current Hyogo Prefectural Government Office is, to five organizations, including the Kobe Chamber of Commerce. This speech distinguished between the "kingly way" of the East and the "hegemonic way" of the West, praising the kingly way of the East, and condemning Japan's tilt towards hegemonic ways due to excess, while also praising Japan's modernization as a leader in this regard.<ref>Chen De-ren & Yasui Mikio (Eds.) "Sun Yat-sen Lecture 'Great Asianism' Document Collection - 1924 November, Japan and China at a Crossroads" Hōritsu Bunka-sha, 1989</ref><ref>孫文の「大アジア主義」講演会から100年、舞台の神戸で記念行事朝日新聞</ref>

You Japanese people have adopted the hegemonic cultural ways of the West, while also possessing the essence of the kingly way of Asian culture. However, as you look toward the future of world culture, the question remains: will you ultimately become the tools of the Western hegemonic ways, or will you stand as a barrier to the Eastern kingly way? This depends on your careful consideration and deliberate choices.<ref>東北大学大アジア主義演説全文</ref>

This speech criticized Western colonialism while praising Japan's modernization and civilization. It also criticized Japan for becoming a follower of Western colonialism and advocated for cooperation among Asians.

FamilyEdit

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Lu Muzhen, Sun's first wife

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Kaoru Otsuki, Sun's Japanese teenage wife

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Fumiko, daughter of Sun and Kaoru

Sun Yat-sen was born to Sun Dacheng ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) and his wife, Lady Yang ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) on 12 November 1866.<ref name="family background and schooling">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> At the time, his father was 53, and his mother was 38 years old. He had an older brother, Sun Dezhang ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), and an older sister, Sun Jinxing ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), who died at the early age of 4. Another older brother, Sun Deyou ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), died at the age of 6. He also had an older sister, Sun Miaoqian ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), and a younger sister, Sun Qiuqi ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}).<ref name="singtao2" />

At age 20, Sun had an arranged marriage with the fellow villager Lu Muzhen. She bore a son, Sun Fo, and two daughters, Sun Jinyuan ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) and Sun Jinwan ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}).<ref name="singtao2" /> Sun Fo was the grandfather of Leland Sun, who spent 37 years working in Hollywood as an actor and stuntman.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Sun Yat-sen was also the godfather of Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, an American author and poet who wrote under the name Cordwainer Smith.

Sun's first concubine, the Hong Kong-born Chen Cuifen, lived in Taiping, Perak (now in Malaysia) for 17 years. The couple adopted a local girl as their daughter. Cuifen subsequently relocated to China, where she died.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

During Sun's exile in Japan, he had relationships with two Japanese women: the 15-year-old Haru Asada, whom he took as a concubine up to her death in 1902, and another 15-year-old schoolgirl, Kaoru Otsuki, whom Sun married in 1905 and abandoned the next year while she was pregnant.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Otsuki later had their daughter, Fumiko, adopted by the Miyagawa family in Yokohama, who did not discover her parentage until 1951,<ref name=":1" /> 26 years after Sun's death.

On 25 October 1915 in Japan, Sun married Soong Ching-ling, one of the Soong sisters.<ref name="singtao2" /><ref>Isaac F. Marcosson, Turbulent Years (1938), p.249</ref> Soong Ching-ling's father was the American-educated Methodist minister Charles Soong, who made a fortune in banking and in printing of Bibles. Although Charles had been a personal friend of Sun, he was enraged by Sun announcing his intention to marry Ching-ling because while Sun was a Christian, he kept two wives: Lu Muzhen and Kaoru Otsuki. Soong viewed Sun's actions as running directly against their shared religion.

Soong Ching-Ling's sister, Soong Mei-ling, later married Chiang Kai-shek.

Cultural referencesEdit

Memorials and structures in AsiaEdit

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Aerial perspective of Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall, in central Singapore, taken in 2016

In most major Chinese cities, one of the main streets is Zhongshan Lu ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) to celebrate Sun's memory. There are also numerous parks, schools, and geographical features named after him. Xiangshan, Sun's hometown in Guangdong, was renamed Zhongshan in his honor, and there is a hall dedicated to his memory at the Temple of Azure Clouds in Beijing. There are also a series of Sun Yat-sen stamps.

Other references to Sun include the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou and National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung. Other structures include Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall subway station, Sun Yat-sen house in Nanjing, Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum in Hong Kong, Chung-Shan Building, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Guangzhou, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei and Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall in Singapore. Zhongshan Memorial Middle School has also been a name used by many schools. Zhongshan Park is also a common name used for a number of places named after him. The first highway in Taiwan is called the Sun Yat-sen expressway. Two ships are also named after him; the Chinese gunboat Chung Shan and the Chinese cruiser Yat Sen. The old Chinatown in Calcutta (now known as Kolkata), India, has the prominent Sun Yat-sen Street.

In Russia, a village in Mikhaylovsky District of Primorsky Krai was named Sunyatsenskoe in honor of him. There are streets named after him in Astrakhan, Ufa and Aldan. There was a street that was named after Sun in the Russian city of Omsk until 2005, when it was renamed in honor of the recipient of the title Hero of Soviet Union Mikhail Ivanovich Leonov.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In George Town, Penang, Malaysia, the Penang Philomatic Union had its premises at 120 Armenian Street in 1910, while Sun spent more than four months in Penang and convened the historic "Penang Conference" to launch the fundraising campaign for the Huanghuagang Uprising and founded the Kwong Wah Yit Poh. The house, which has been preserved as the Sun Yat-sen Museum (formerly called the Sun Yat Sen Penang Base), was visited by President-designate Hu Jintao in 2002. The Penang Philomatic Union subsequently moved to a bungalow at 65 Macalister Road, which has been preserved as the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Centre Penang.

As a dedication, the 1966 Chinese Cultural Renaissance was launched on Sun's birthday on 12 November.<ref>Guy, Nancy. (2005). Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan. University of Illinois Press. Template:ISBN. p. 67.</ref>

The Nanyang Wan Qing Yuan in Singapore have since been preserved and renamed as the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall.<ref name="wanqingyuan1" /> A Sun Yat-sen heritage trail was also launched on 20 November 2010 in Penang.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref>

Sun's Hawaiian birth certificate, which claimed that he was not born in China but in the United States, was on public display at the American Institute in Taiwan on US Independence Day on 4 July 2011.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

A street in Medan, Indonesia, is named "Jalan Sun Yat-Sen" in honor of him.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

A street named "Tôn Dật Tiên" (the Sino-Vietnamese name for Sun Yat-Sen) is located in Phú Mỹ Hưng Urban Area, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

The "Trail of Dr. Sun Yat Sen and His Comrades in Ipoh"<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> was established in 2019, based on the book "Road to Revolution: Dr. Sun Yat Sen and His Comrades in Ipoh."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

GalleryEdit

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Mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen, Nanjing.
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Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Guangzhou.
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Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei.
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Sun Yat-sen Memorial Centre, George Town, Penang, Malaysia.
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A marker on the Sun Yat-sen Historical Trail on Hong Kong Island.
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Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall at Temple of Azure Clouds in Beijing, China.
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Coffin (unused) for Sun Yat-sen, gifted by the СССР, in Temple of Azure Clouds.
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Bronze statue in the Kang Le Yuan Garden at the South Guangzhou Campus of Sun Yat-sen University. Originally presented by Umeya Shokichi at Guangzhou National Sun Yat-sen University Shipai Campus, which is now home to the South China University of Technology.
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The Museum of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in Cuiheng

Memorials and structures outside AsiaEdit

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Sun Yat-Sen monument in Chinatown area of Los Angeles, California

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Sun Yat-Sen sculpture by Joe Rosenthal at Riverdale Park in Toronto, Ontario

St. John's University, in New York City, has a facility built in 1973, the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, which built to resemble a traditional Chinese building in honor of Sun.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, located in Vancouver, is the largest classical Chinese gardens outside Asia. The Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park is in Chinatown, Honolulu.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On the island of Maui, the little Sun Yat-sen Park at Kamaole is near where his older brother had a ranch on the slopes of Haleakala in the Kula region.<ref name="KHON2SunMei" /><ref name="MauiSunPark" /><ref name="MauiCountySunPark" /><ref name="MauiMagazine">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In Los Angeles, there is a seated statue of him in Central Plaza.<ref name="Sun Yat-sen">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In Sacramento, California, there is a bronze statue of Sun in front of the Chinese Benevolent Association of Sacramento. Another statue of Sun, by Joe Rosenthal, can be found at Riverdale Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and there is another statue in Toronto's downtown Chinatown. There is also the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University. In Chinatown, San Francisco is a 12-foot statue of Sun on Saint Mary's Square.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In late 2011, the Chinese Youth Society of Melbourne, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China, unveiled in a lion dance blessing ceremony a memorial statue of Sun outside the Chinese Museum in the city's Chinatown on the spot that its traditional Chinese New Year lion dance always ends.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Sun Yat-Sen plaza in the Chinese Quarter of Montreal, Quebec, Canada

In 1993, Lily Sun, one of Sun Yat-sen's granddaughters, donated books, photographs, artwork and other memorabilia to the Kapiʻolani Community College library as part of the Sun Yat-sen Asian Collection.<ref name="kcc">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> During October and November every year the entire collection is shown.<ref name="kcc" /> In 1997, the Dr Sun Yat-sen Hawaii Foundation was formed online as a virtual library.<ref name="kcc" /> In 2006, the NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit called one of the hills that was explored "Zhongshan."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2019, a statue of Dr. Sun Yat-sen by Lu Chun-Hsiung and Michael Kang was permanently installed in the northern plaza of Manhattan's Columbus Park.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In popular cultureEdit

OperaEdit

Dr. Sun Yat-sen<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> (Template:Lang-zh) is a 2011 Chinese-language western-style opera in three acts by the New York-based American composer Huang Ruo, who was born in China and is a graduate of Oberlin College's Conservatory as well as the Juilliard School. The libretto was written by Candace Mui-ngam Chong, a recent collaborator with playwright David Henry Hwang.<ref>Gerard Raymond, "Between East and West: An Interview with David Henry Hwang" on slantmagazine.com, 28 October 2011</ref> It was performed in Hong Kong in October 2011 and was given its North America premiere on 26 July 2014 at the Santa Fe Opera.

Television series and filmsEdit

Sun Yat-sen's life is portrayed in various films, mainly The Soong Sisters and Road to Dawn. A fictionalized assassination attempt on his life was featured in Bodyguards and Assassins. He is also portrayed during his struggle to overthrow the Qing dynasty in Once Upon a Time in China II. The television series Towards the Republic features Ma Shaohua as Sun. In 1911, a film commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution, Winston Chao played Sun.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In Space: Above and Beyond, one of the starships of the China Navy is named the Sun Yat-sen.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

PerformancesEdit

In 2010, the theatrical play Yellow Flower on Slopes ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) was created and performed.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref>

In 2011, the Mandopop group Zhongsan Road 100 ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) was known for singing the song "Our Father of the Nation" ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

WorksEdit

Kidnapped in London (1897)
The Outline of National Reconstruction/Chien Kuo Ta Kang (1918)
The Fundamentals of National Reconstruction/Jianguo fanglue (1924)
The Principle of Nationalism (1953)

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