biography
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Sun Yixian
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or Sun Yatsen, originally Sun Wen
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pronunciation:
[sun yeeshan]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1866–1925)
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| biography:
| Founder and early leader of China's Nationalist Party, born in Xiang-shan, Guangdong, SE China. He was educated in Hawaii and in Hong Kong, where he trained as a doctor. Alarmed by the weakness and decay of his country, he founded the Society for the Revival of China, and sprang to fame when, on a visit to London, he was kidnapped by the Chinese legation and released through the intervention of the Foreign Office. He then helped to organize risings in S China. He returned to China after the 1911 Wuhan rising, realized that he would not be widely acceptable as president, and voluntarily handed over the office to Yuan Shikai. After the assassination of his follower, Sung Chiao-jen, civil war ensued (1913), and he set up a separate government at Guangzhou (Canton). He was widely accepted as the true leader of the nation. |
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