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Sun Yat-Sen

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Stanford University Press, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 480 pages
Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), the first president of the Republic of China, has left a supremely ambivalent political and intellectual legacy—so much so that he is claimed as a Founding Father by both the present rival governments in Taipei and Beijing. In Taiwan, he is the object of a veritable cu
This book argues that the life and work of Sun Yat-sen have been distorted both by the creation of the myth and by the attempts at demythification. Its aim is to provide a fresh overall evaluation of the man and the events that turned an adventurer into the founder of the Chinese Republic and the leader of a great nationalist movement. The Sun Yat-sen who emerges from this rigorously researched account is a muddled politician, an opportunist with generous but confused ideas, a theorist without great originality or intellectual rigor.

But the author demonstrates that the importance of Sun Yat-sen lies elsewhere. A Cantonese raised in Hawaii and Hong Kong, he was a product of maritime China, the China of the coastal provinces and overseas communities, open to foreign influences and acutely aware of the modern Western world (he was fund-raising in Denver when the eleventh attempt to bring down the Chinese empire finally succeeded). In facing the problems of change, of imitating the West, of rejecting or adapting tradition, he instinctively grasped the aspirations of his time, understood their force, and crystallized them into practical programs.

Sun Yat-sen's gifts enabled him to foresee the danger that technology might represent to democracy, stressed the role of infrastructures (transport, energy) in economic modernization, and looked forward to a new style of diplomatic and international economic relations based upon cooperation that bypassed or absorbed old hostilities. These “utopias” of his, at which his contemporaries heartily jeered, now seem to be so many prophecies.

  

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Sun Yat-sen was the first president of the Chinese republic in 1911, yet he is little know around the world and perhaps rightly so. He influenced little the chain of events that led to the Chinese ... Read full review

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Contents

Introduction
1
The Formative Years 18661894
13
The Symbolic Creation of a Revolutionary Leader 18941897
42
The Symbolic Creation of a Revolutionary Movement 18971900
69
The Awakening of Chinese Nationalism and the Founding of
97
Sun and the Revolutionary Alliance
141
The Conspirator
173
The Adoptive Father of the Chinese Republic
198
PART THREE
287
Sun Yatsen Soviet Advisers and the Canton Revolutionary Base
293
Sun Yatsens Three Principles of the People
352
Sun Yatsens Death and Transformation
395
Biographical Sketches
423
Notes
437
Bibliography
459
Index
471

Crossing the Desert 19131920
246
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Sun Yat-sen - Marie-Claire Bergère Translated by Janet Lloyd
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Schiffrin, Harold Z. Sun Yat-sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution. Berkeley, Ca.: University of California Press, 1968. ...
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About the author (1998)

Bergere is Professor of Chinese Civilization at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris

Joseph Perez is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Bordeaux and Honorary Director of the Velazquez Museum in Madrid. His previous books include a history of Spain under Philip II and biographies of Ferdinand and Isabella and Emperor Charles V. Janet Lloyd has translated more than fifty books and was twice awarded the Scott Moncrieff prize for best translation of a full-length French work of literary merit and general interest.

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TitleSun Yat-Sen
AuthorMarie Claire Bergère
Translated byJanet Lloyd
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherStanford University Press, 1998
ISBN0804740119, 9780804740111
Length480 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State
History / Asia / China
  
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