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  Sun Yat-sen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On November 12, 1866, Sun Yat-sen was born to a peasant family in the village of Cuiheng, Xiangshan county, Guangzhou prefecture, Guangdong province (26 km (16 miles) north of Macao) and spoke the Zhongshan dialect of Cantonese.
Sun died of liver cancer on March 12, 1925, at the age of 58, in Beijing.
Sun's tomb was one of the first stops made by the leaders of both the Kuomintang and the People First Party on their trips to mainland China in 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sun_Yatsen   (4167 words)

  
 Sun Yatsen Mausoleum China - China tourist & travel guide for Sun Yatsen Mausoleum, China
The Sun Yatsen Mausoleum located at the southern foot of the Purple Mountain in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, is the Mausoleum of the great revolutionary forerunner, Dr. Sun Yatsen.
The Sun Yatsen Mausoleum constructed along the mountains is of great momentum with the distant mountains as the front vaulted arch and screen-like green mountain pinnacles as its rear fence.
The total area of the Sun Yatsen Mausoleum is over 45,000 acre, among which the forest habitat area covers 32,000 acre with vicinity of the mausoleum are Concert Platform, Guanghua Pavilion, Waterside Pavilion and other auxiliary buildings.
www.orientaltravel.com /province/city/area/Sun_Yatsen_Mausoleum.htm   (332 words)

  
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Sun Yatsen has been canonized and worshipped by both the Guomindang (Chinese Nationalist Party) and the Communists as a national cult figure and, in particular, by the former as the source of political legitimacy since 1925.
Sun also included in his lectures, a philosophical discourse that there are three classes of men formed by the nature-bestowed intellect and endowments of each individual.
Sun's nationalism is no longer adequate to meet the challenge of the inspiration and problems of China's minority nationalities in the 21st century.
mcel.pacificu.edu /aspac/papers/scholars/Chen/chen.html   (3681 words)

  
 [ks-open] Re: Democracy during Japanese Occupation?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sun replied that this should be done but that it would be difficult since the PG was established in the French concession of Shanghai.
Sun also said that it would be better, if the PG would be inside of Korea and if only would assume some administrative power in Sunuiju or Chongjin for a few days.
Sun told him that the recognition of the PG in principle would not be difficult.
koreaweb.ws /pipermail/ksopen_koreaweb.ws/2000-November/000197.html   (916 words)

  
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Sun was born in a small village in Guangdong and given the name Dixiang (he who serves the god) to signify his mothers reverence for the village deity.
Sun also accompanied Hager on a missionary journey to Macau and even took him to the home village from which he had recently been expelled.
Sun had seized his hand and exclaimed, You are a Christian and so am I. wish to tell you something I have always felt which you will understand.
www.prayforchina.com /pro_sun_yatsen_e.htm   (618 words)

  
 Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages--Sun Yatsen
Sun Yatsen (aka Sun Yixian, Sun Zhongshan, Sun Wen, 1866-1925) is considered the founding father of modern China, both in the People's Republic and in the Republic of China (on Taiwan).
Early February 1912 Sun resigned in favor of Yuan Shikai, the former military strongman of the Qing.
In 1940, the GMD decreed that Sun should be revered as "father of the Republic" (Guofu).
www.iisg.nl /~landsberger/syx.html   (750 words)

  
 Chinese Cultural Studies: Sun Yat-sen: Fundamentals of National Reconstruction (1923 CE)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sun studied at a missionary school and ultimately earned a medical degree in Hong Kong.
In l895 a coup he plotted failed, and for the next 16 years Sun was an exile in Europe, the United States and Japan.
Sun immediately returned to China, headed the revolutionary movement for a time, and then went back into exile until 1923, when he finally emerged as president of China.
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /core9/phalsall/texts/sunyat.html   (2235 words)

  
 (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While Sun's theory of the separation of quan and neng appears difficult to comprehend, his intention was very clear, as his later statements indicate:
The duty of "Zhuge Liang" in a democracy, Sun should have known, is to protect the constitution, to assure that both quan and neng of "Adous" are kept intact.
As to the second method, "equalization of landownership," Sun proposed equalization through taxation on the land and its purchase by the government according to the value as determined by the owner himself.
mcel.pacificu.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /aspac/papers/scholars/Chen/chen.html   (3681 words)

  
 WW2DB: Liren Sun
Sun Liren was a general of Chiang Kaishek's Nationalist Army.
After graduating in 1925, Sun Yatsen recommended the already militarily-inspired Sun a career in the military to better serve his home country, and thus Sun enrolled in the Virginia Military Institute.
Sun's experience in VMI was not a pleasant one.
www.ww2db.com /person_bio.php?person_id=81   (876 words)

  
 Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s Mausoleum: Nanjing Tour Attractions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As the mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Republic of China, it is considered the Holy land of Chinese people both home and abroad.
Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) was a great forerunner of the Chinese democratic revolution and led by Dr. Sun the Chinese people brought down the corrupt rule of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and ended 2000 years of the feudal monarchy system, which led the Chinese peoples in to a new age.
Sun Yat-sen wears long gown with eyes facing forward, with an open book on his lap, demonstrating the wisdom of the great thinker.
www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/jiangsu/nanjing/sun.htm   (730 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Independent Election Candidate Campaign Thwarted   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
After Sun Buer declared his intention to run for office, he was pressured regularly by the election committee and police.
Sun Buer said that voters told him the police photographed him from their patrol cars while he was hanging up his posters.
Sun Buer said, "I resigned from the Communist Youth League and joined the Kuomintang spiritually [the Kuomintang is in Taiwan, so he cannot physically join] and then founded the China Pan-Blue Coalition.
www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-9-15/45918.html   (722 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Sun Yat-sen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
History and the imaginaries of 'Big Singapore': positioning the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall.
Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall Opens in Singapore.
HK to hold exhibition featuring Sun Yat-sen's HK years.
www.encyclopedia.com /printablenew/12482.html   (155 words)

  
 China's Confession
D25) Sun said, for China it was not 'difficult to practice what we know,' rather it was 'difficult to know what to practice.' For three thousand years the Chinese placed their faith in the wrong object and worshiped the wrong person.
Sun Yatsen was elected the Provisional President of the Republic of China.
Sun Yatsen once again was called to lead a campaign to restore the constitution of the republic.
www.chinasoul.com /e/e-wk/episode04.htm   (1708 words)

  
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Sun Yatsen’s ideas of democracy, modernization, westernization, socialism, and social reform were good for the advancement of China in 1911 and are good for the advancement of China today.
Hindsight may be 20/20 but, nearly all of the above ideas were part of Sun Yatsen’s Three Principles of the People which he began to formulate in 1896. In 1924 Sun published his final version of Three Principles of the People with the principles being: nationalism, livelihood of the people, and democracy.
Hopefully a visionary like Sun Yatsen can lead them through this juncture so that the choice of where to go afterward can be their own.
www.nas.com /carlos/essays/SunYatsen.doc   (1632 words)

  
 Sun Yatsen Memorial Hall, Guangzhou, Regent Tour China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sun Yatsen Memorial Hall, built in 1931, is a famous commemorative structure of the Chinese revolution of 1911.
It was designed by the well-known architect of modern China, Lu Yanzhi, who was also the designer of the Sun Yatsen Mausoleum in Nanjing.
The auditorium is octagonal--in the shape of the palace hall.
www.regenttour.com /chinaplanner/can/guanzhou-sights-sunyasen.htm   (90 words)

  
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Sun Yatsen was later forced to resign by Yuan Shikai, head of the imperial army.
Sun Yatsen and the Kuomintang were able to establish a secure base in southern China and began training a National Revolutionary Army (NRA) whose objective was to challenge the northern warlords.
After the death of Sun Yatsen in 1925, the NRA attempted to eliminate the communists.
www.marimari.com /content/china/general_info/history/republican.html   (677 words)

  
 Republic of China Dynasty Map
The revolutionary leader was Sun Yat-sen. Sun's political philosophy centered on the Three Principles of the People: "nationalism, democracy, and people's livelihood." The principle of nationalism called for overthrowing the Manchus and ending foreign hegemony over China.
The second principle, democracy, was used to describe Sun's goal of a popularly elected republican form of government.
On January 1, 1912, Sun was inaugurated in Nanjing as the provisional president of the new Chinese republic.
www.paulnoll.com /China/Dynasty/dynasty-ROC.html   (282 words)

  
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Sun Yatsen, the man credited with bringing down the Qing Dynasty in 1911, was a true revolutionary.
Sun was opposed not only by the government he wished to overthrow but also by others with conflicting views on how to change China for the better.
On the same token Sun’s associates Zou Rong, Qiu Jin, Xu Xilin, and Zhang Binglin were all very active in writing about the changes that need to be made and even offering an alternative to the Qing Dynasty through revolution, however most of them died before the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty.
www.nas.com /carlos/essays/Revolution.doc   (872 words)

  
 Is Sun Yatsen Hakka?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It examines the ideas of both those who affirm that Sun Yatsen was a Hakka and those who deny it, as well as the history and current condition of the people of Cuiheng.
On the basis of these investigations, it becomes clear that the ancestor of Sun Yatsen were not among the Hakka removed from Zijin in the early Qing (Dynasty).
Therefore, if the Suns came to Zhongshan before the wave of migration at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, they may have been assimilated and considered themselves native, even their ancestor spoke the Hakka dialect.
www.asiawind.com /pub/forum/fhakka/mhonarc/msg00801.html   (414 words)

  
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The Dr Sun Yatsen Global Huaren/Chinese Foundation would combine the ideals of good governance and government such as those founded on the Nobel Institute, Rockefeller Foundation, Bill Gates Foundation and others.
The Dr Sun Yatsen Global Huaren/Chinese Foundation has the ultimate aim to “cultivate peace and harmony for all people” as stated in the mission and charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Dr Sun Yatsen Global Huaren/Chinese Foundation aims to promote those guiding principles of good governance and government to avoid human folly and corruption of power and greed.
www.huaren.org   (1329 words)

  
 History of China
Sun YatSen returned to politics during this time to form a southern Kuomintang government, which exercised nominal control over parts of the south in the 1920s.
Despite the infighting between regional warlords, this was an era of intellectual development, especially in the realm of political thought.
Towards the end of the Northern Expedition, as Chiang's forces were poised to capture Shanghai, communist workers inside the city who had been clandestinely organized by Communist Party leaders seized the city.
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 Sam's Travels to Exotic Guangzhou - China's Oldest Western Port
Guangzhou (known as Canton to the west) is one of China's most historic cities: its only port open to the west until the 1850's; home of most of Chinese who immigrated to America in the 1800's; and the first home of both the Nationalist and Communist parties in the early 20th century.
After the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty in 1912, Sun Yatsen led a movement to introduce democracy in China.
The complex contains the Sun Yatsen Hall as well as a smaller museum containing artifacts of Sun Yatsen's life.
www.samsays.com /Guangzhou.htm   (833 words)

  
 Republik China - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Unter anderen hatte Sun Yatsen, der seine Ausbildung in Japan genossen hatte und sich zum Christentum bekannte, bereits vor 1911 mehrere Umsturzversuche, hauptsächlich in den Südprovinzen organisiert.
Januar 1912 wurde unter Sun Yatsen die Republik mit einer provisorischen Verfassung und einem Ministerium aus Jungchinesen ausgerufen.
Als Sun Yatsen Mitte 1913 erkannte, dass er von Yuan hintergangen wurde, gründete er die Kuomintang als eine politische Kraft und initiierte eine zweite Revolution.
de.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Republik_China   (3339 words)

  
 Chinese China History - Communists in China
On 1 January 1912 Sun Yatsen (a member of Tongmenghui) was announced the provincial president of the Republic of China.
Democracy was sun's attempt to secure liberty and equality, in a country, which previously had a long history of imperial dynastic rule.
It can be concluded, that within the GMD government there was no, after Sun, no interest in a social revolution and those reforms were made, had little effect outside larger towns or the welfare of the majority of the population.
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 Nanjing / Purple Mountain / Qinhuai River District / The Old City Walls / transportations
Many of the city's historical sites are date back to these periods and Sun Yatsen's Mausoleum and the Ming Tombs are examples of the wealth of culture existing in this ancient city.
When the sun sets over the river, the streets fill up with stalls for the night market and the restaurants and tea houses burst with people and noise.
Nanjing is a good place to see a bit of Chinese history and culture away from the tourist route; the city is littered with cultural relics, museums and nice scenery and is small enough to get around in a short period of time.
www.chinatravelhub.com /news/c027.htm   (1686 words)

  
 Jiang Jieshi Biography - Biography.com
In 1918 he joined the separatist revolutionary government of Sun Yixian (Sun Yatsen) in Canton, where he was appointed commandant of the new Whampoa Military Academy.
After Sun's death (1925), he launched an expedition against the warlords and the Beijing government, entering Beijing in 1928, but fixed the Nationalist capital at Nanjing (Nanking).
Marriage to Sun's US-educated sister-in-law (1927) involved Jiang with international businessmen, and he also became a Methodist.
www.biography.com /search/article.jsp?aid=9354588   (242 words)

  
 Origin of the surname Sun, Suen
During Zhou Cheng Wangs reign (1,115 1,078 B.C.), he was awarded the land of Wei (Wei Hui of HeNan), and was known as Wei Kang Shu.
Sun Shu Ao was a great grandson of Chu Wang (king), and he was a great official in the Chu kingdom.
Chun Qiu Sun Wu, the author of the Art of War.
www.yutopian.com /names/10/10sun12.html   (417 words)

  
 MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Dr. Sun Yutsen
It is a stunningly photographed collage of images from the history of the revolutionary period spearheaded by Sun Yat-Sen. The film is objective in the extreme.
Pictorial representation of key battles of the revolutionary period from 1900 to Sun Yates's death and of his key addresses and negotiations in leading the country towards a democratic regime.
Otherwise the tape is of very good quality.
www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=8775   (98 words)

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