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  chen/Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American. Chapter 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
One relative of a leader of the Tongmenghui, or the Revolutionary Alliance, remembered that as a child she had witnessed Sun hiding in her house and that she, her mother, and her sisters had acted as guards at the door and windows while Sun lived in the house.
Tongmenghui members became known among Chinese in the United States as "the lost youngsters," recalled Huang Boyao, English secretary of the Native Sons of the Golden State, the forerunner of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, and an early member of the American Tongmenghui.
In contrast to this reform-oriented and antirevolutionary argument in the nationalist discourse was the argument for a radical revolution as the necessary road to a modern Chinese nation.
www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/chen/ch1.html   (14955 words)

  
 Tongmenghui Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Tongmenghui (同盟會 Pinyin: Tóng Méng Huì, literal meaning: "United Allegiance Society"), also known as the United League or the Revolutionary Alliance, was organized by Sun Yat-sen and Sung Chiao-jen in Tokyo, Japan on August 20, 1905.
Combining republican, nationalist, and social objectives, the Tongmenghui's political platform was "to overthrow the Manchu barbarians, to restore China to the Chinese, to establish a republic, and to distribute land equally."
After the establishment of the Republic of China, the Tongmenghui formed, in August 1912, the nucleus of Sun's new Kuomintang (Nationalist Party).
www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/t/to/tongmenghui.html   (131 words)

  
 Sung Chiao-jen : Information and resources about Sung Chiao-jen : School Work Guru
In 1905, together with Sun Yat-sen, Sung helped found and was a leading activist in the Tongmenghui, which was an organization dedicated to the overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the formation of a republic.
After the declaration of the Republic of China, Sung helped transform the Tongmenghui into the Kuomintang (or Nationalist Party).
He died of wounds from an assassination in Shanghai on March 20, 1913 at a Shanghai rail station when he was planning to deliver speeches for supporting a cabinet system.
schoolworkguru.org /encyclopedia/s/su/sung_chiao_jen.html   (207 words)

  
 Tongmenghui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tongmenghui (Chinese: 同盟會; Pinyin: Tóngménghuì; Wade-Giles: T'ung-meng Hui; lit.
Combining republican, nationalist, and socialist objectives, the Tongmenghui's political platform was "to overthrow the Manchu barbarians, to restore China to the Chinese, to establish a republic, and to distribute land equally." (Chinese: 驅除韃虜,恢復中華,創立民國,平均地權)
After the establishment of the Republic of China, the Tongmenghui formed, in August 1912, the nucleus of Sun's new Kuomintang, which translates to Nationalist Party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tongmenghui   (226 words)

  
 Discovering China: Movers & Shakers
He formed several secret societies, the first of which was Hsin Chung Hui or Revive China Society, which he led from 1894 to 1905.
In 1905 he formed the Tongmenghui or Sworn Chinese Brotherhood.
His three aims were to "Eliminate the Manchu's, eliminate the monarchy, and open the road to socialism".
library.thinkquest.org /26469/movers-and-shakers/sun.html   (739 words)

  
 chen/Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American. Chapter 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Tongmenghui, for which the paper was the voice, had already set an example of political participation by writing a public letter to China's president and the senate of the provisional government.
Tan Yuelou was the former Tongmenghui secretary and cashier.
While the Tongmenghui was losing supporters, a new political party was introduced to the Chinese in the United States.
www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/chen/ch2.html   (14301 words)

  
 Xinhai Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tongmenghui launched their project in Huanan (華南), while Guang Fu Hui was active in Jiangsu (江蘇), Zhejiang (浙江) and Shanghai (上海).
The Tongmenghui, founded later on, was a loose organization distributed across the country.
The Tongmenghui, founded in 1905, advocated "expelling the Manchus, restoring the Han, founding a republic and equally dividing the land ownership", which referred to the Three Principles of the People (三民主義, Nationalism, Democracy, and Socialism) promoted by Sun Yat-sen.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xinhai_Revolution   (6780 words)

  
 chen/Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American. Appendix: Political Events in China, 1898-1924   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Boxer Uprising, an antiforeign rebellion in northern China, was crushed by allied troops from Britain, Germany, France, the United States, Russia, Italy, Austria, and Japan.
Guangzhou Uprising, the ninth failed uprising against the Qing dynasty led by the Tongmenghui, took place in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province.
Tongmenghui merged with other small political groups and became the Guomindang (GMD, or Nationalist Party).
www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/chen/append.html   (1170 words)

  
 Superpower Empire: China 1912 (version 2.0) - Alternate History Discussion Board
In 1905 Sun founded the Tongmenghui (United League) in Tokyo with Huang Xing (1874-1916), a popular leader of the Chinese revolutionary movement in Japan, as his deputy.
Various attempts by the Bolsheviks to export Communism to either China or Yakutia remain fruitless ; except for a handful of frustrated members of the Tongmenghui’s radical wing and the odd exalted intellectual, the Communist ideology fails to seduce a population already mobilized by the new regime.
One of the men behind the choice of Kang Youwei to succeed Yuan Shikai as the provisional President of the Republic in 1912, he was invited by Kang’s disciple Liang Qichao to join the latter’s new party, the Jinbudang.
www.alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=26878   (13517 words)

  
 Tongmenghui - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Tongmenghui (Chinese: 同盟會;; Pinyin: Tóngménghuì; Wade-Giles: T'ung-meng Hui; lit.
United Allegiance Society), also known as the United League or the Revolutionary Alliance, was a secret society and underground resistance movement organized by Sun Yat-sen and Sung Chiao-jen in Tokyo, Japan, on 20 August 1905.
Combining republican, nationalist, and socialist objectives, the Tongmenghui's political platform was "to overthrow the Manchu barbarians, to restore China to the Chinese, to establish a republic, and to distribute land equally."
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Tongmenghui   (195 words)

  
 CIO Sun Yat-sen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Sun Yat-sen is considered the father of the Chinese republican revolution.
Educated in medicine in Hong Kong, he became an anti-Manchu activist and through his Tongmenghui accomplished the overthrow of the Qing dynasty.
The Tongmenghui became the Kuomintang, at the head of which Sun struggled against „warlord” factions to unite China.
cio.ceu.hu /glossary/CIO/Sun_Yatsen.html   (69 words)

  
 sociology - Kuomintang
Founded in Guangdong Province on August 25, 1912 by Sung Chiao-jen and Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the KMT was formed from a collection of several revolutionary groups, including the Tongmenghui, as a moderate democratic socialist party.
The party gained a majority in the first National Assembly, but in 1913 Yuan Shikai, who was President dissolved the body, had Sung assassinated, and ordered the Kuomintang suppressed.
Soviet advisers also helped the Nationalists set up a political institute to train propagandists in mass mobilization techniques, and in 1923 Chiang Kai-shek, one of Sun's lieutenants from the Tongmenghui days, was sent to Moscow for several months' military and political study.
www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/KMT   (2124 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Tongmenghui: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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 Wang Jingwei Biography | ema_06_package.xml
Born in Guangzhou (Canton), Wang won a government scholarship to study in Japan, where he received a degree from Tokyo Law College in 1906.
Returning in 1917, Wang rejoined Sun in Guangzhou, where they worked to reorganize the Nationalist Party (Guomindang, as the Tongmenghui had been renamed) and build an army with the ultimate goal of reunifying China.
Sun's death in 1925 left Wang seemingly positioned to take control of the Party, but his path was blocked by a new rival, Chiang Kai-shek.
www.bookrags.com /biography/wang-jingwei-ema-06   (502 words)

  
 Chiang Kai-shek - ninemsn Encarta
There he attended the Military Staff College and met Sun Yat-sen.
Chiang joined Sun's United Revolutionary League (Tongmenghui), a secret organization and the forerunner of the Guomindang or Kuomintang (KMT), the Chinese Nationalist party.
When the 1911 uprising broke out in China, Chiang returned to Shanghai, where he took part in the overthrow of the imperial government and the establishment of the Republic of China (1912).
au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572748/Chiang_Kai-shek.html   (795 words)

  
 Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages--Sun Yatsen
In 1905, Sun was elected the director of the Tongmenghui, a more centralized and carefully organized revolutionary league based in Tokyo.
Early February 1912 Sun resigned in favor of Yuan Shikai, the former military strongman of the Qing.
In an attempt to regain power through the newly active National Assembly, he revamped the Tongmenghui, together with other progressive parties, into a new political organization, the Nationalist Party (Guomindang, GMD).
www.iisg.nl /~landsberger/syx.html   (750 words)

  
 PlanetPapers - Communists in China
Surprisingly, the actual uprising developed on 10 October 1911 among a group of plotters in the army, which soon controlled the province of Wuchang.
On 1 January 1912 Sun Yatsen (a member of Tongmenghui) was announced the provincial president of the Republic of China.
Still, he was forced to resign from the provisional presidency because of Yuan Shikai, who organized the abdication of the Qing emperor in return for his own appointment as president of the republic.
www.planetpapers.com /Assets/2196.php   (3785 words)

  
 Windows on Asia
Many Chinese regard Sun Yat-sen as the "Father of the Nation." A Western-trained intellectual, Sun was instrumental in forming an alliance of revolutionary organizations called the Tongmenghui.
While Sun was the popular choice to become the first president of Republican China, he stepped aside in favor of Yuan Shikai, commander of the New Chinese Army.
Yuan initially voiced support for a Tongmenghui agenda, but he soon betrayed their trust.
www.isp.msu.edu /asianStudies/wbwoa/eastasia/China/History/Republican_China.html   (1640 words)

  
 Zhu De (1961): De "Una mirada retrospectiva a la Revolución de 1911"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Luego de fundada la Tongmenghui en Tokio, sus miembros no tardaron en retornar sucesivamente a China e ir a diversas partes del país a organizar grupos revolucionarios y, en unión con otros patriotas, a preparar levantamientos.
Eran en su mayoría miembros de la Tongmenghui, mientras que los otros o bien lo eran igualmente, o bien estaban influenciados por su propaganda revolucionaria.
Si bien no era miembro de la Tongmenghui y nunca estuvo abiertamente en contacto con la Academia Militar, era hombre de espíritu patriótico y democrático y mantenía lazos secretos con la Tongmenghui.
www.marxists.org /espanol/zhu/10-10-1961.htm   (1673 words)

  
 Sun Yat-sen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Upon his next visit in June 1905, he met local Chinese merchants Teo Eng Hock, Tan Chor Nam and Lim Nee Soon in a meeting which was to mark the commencement of direct support from the Nanyang Chinese.
In 1906, the chapter grew in membership to 400, and in 1908, when Sun was in Singapore to escape the Qing government in the wake of the failed Zhennanguan Uprising, the chapter had become the regional headquarters for Tongmenghui branches in Southeast Asia.
Sun and his followers travelled from Singapore to Malaya and Indonesia to spread their revolutionary message, by which time the alliance already had over twenty branches with over 3,000 members around the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sun_Yat-sen   (4138 words)

  
 Chinese History - Sun Yat-sen (Sun Wen, Sun Zhongshan) (www.chinaknowledge.org)
Newspapers spread the revolutionary thoughts, and many revolutionary societies were founded on Chinese soil.
These societies were joined in 1905 under the United Leage (Tongmenghui 同盟會), a society that would be able to stage several revolutionary uprisings, and that embraced very different groups of people discontent with the Qing Dynasty.
Agents of the Tongmenghui were able to convince members of the New Army of the revolutionary cause, and the garrison at Wuchang (Wuhan)/Hubei started a revolution late 1911 after large groups of the gentry that had invested money, felt discontent with the nationalization of the Sichuan Railway.
www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Rep/sunzhongshan.html   (1277 words)

  
 Statement of G. Eugene Martin
China has a long history of secret societies and movements which became either criminal or political and, on occasion, succeeded in overthrowing the dynastic government.
One need only look at the Taiping Rebellion or Sun Yat-sen's Tongmenghui movement.
Given the increased availability of information and the speed of modern communication, organizations have enhanced means of connecting their members throughout the country.
www.cecc.gov /pages/roundtables/030402/martin.php?PHPSESSID=9e3d18ae55117441f36f3f877b7f786c   (750 words)

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