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From Empire to People’s Republic
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R. Keith Schoppa
Published: 18 July 2024
... Army imperial China Revolutionary Alliance Sun Yat sen Sun Yat sen Yuan Shikai Tang dynasty Nationalist Party KMT Republic of China 1912 1949 Song Jiaoren Cao Kun Feng Yuxiang Warlord Era 1916 26 Wu Peifu Yan Xishan Zhang Zongchang Cai Yuanpei Chinese language Lu Xun May Fourth...
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Objections to Intra-Party Ethical Screenings
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Elena Ziliotti
Published: 28 May 2024
... are already part of some intra-party selection processes. Finally, it addresses the criticism that Daniel A. Bell has raised against Sun Yat-sen’s idea of meritocratic preselections of leaders in a democracy and elucidates the differences between meritocratic democracy and Sun Yat-sen’s proposal. Bell Daniel...
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Chapter 2
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Frances Wong
Published: 01 December 2009
... to take her younger brother Gia Yuan with her. This chapter further describes Wong's life and journey to inland China, the Sun Yat Sen University, setting up a home, Pui Lian Middle School, Xinxing, and post-war Guangzhou. Pearl Harbour University of Hong Kong China Frances Wong Gia Yuan Sun Yat Sen...
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Published: 03 May 2022
...This chapter discusses China and its grand schemes of the twentieth century, wherein land redistribution had a bipolar nature. Sun Yat-sen's promises of land redistribution were fated never to pass, but the early land redistribution projects begun by the Chinese Communist Party in the 1940s were...
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Final Crusade
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Jeff Mielke
Published: 15 September 2010
...Lea's growing reputation as a military strategist led him to be the advisor of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and his revolutionary movement. As time flew by, he came close to the realization of his dreams. However, his health ultimately gave out and led to his untimely death. Lea's inflated status as a military...
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A Letter from My Friends in America (1894–97)
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Scott D. Seligman
Published: 01 March 2013
..., and there was strong evidence that he corresponded with Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who strived to put an end to constitutional monarchy in China. Later, Wong announced plans for the establishment of a revolutionary junta in Chicago with the intension of overthrowing the Manchu government and rule China following their downfall...
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Published: 01 September 2016
... democracy and warlordism. Leaders, like Yuan Shikai and in particular Sun Yat-sen, alongside fictionalized entities such as the two warlords, General Tsao (Cao) and General Tun (Duan), and the revolutionary fervor, democratic reforms and dreams, monarchist revivalism and revolutions which variously went...
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Losing a Speech
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David Strand
Published: 07 June 2011
...One symbol of Sun Yat-sen's attainment as an orator was not that he rarely lost a speech. One result of a suffragist's more challenging role as a female orator was that she met with a mix of victories and defeats, applause, and heckling. Nationalist Party convention displayed Sun's skill in talking...
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Published: 01 June 2010
...The “Transnationalism and America” project funded by the Lingnan Foundation and taking place at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) in Guangzhou indicates that Chinese professors, graduate students, and undergraduates can all learn from interdisciplinary inquiry and team-teaching methodologies. Exciting...
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Published: 27 September 2016
...This study details the parts of Sun Yat-sen’s system of thought that drew on ideas adapted from the Chinese intellectual tradition. It discusses Sun’s thought in the context of late 19th-and early 20th-century Chinese intellectual history. Admitting Sun’s debt to Western thought, the article finds...
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Published: 25 February 2016
... Zhao Ziyang Foreign Direct Investment FDI Hu Jintao Jiang Zemin Bo Xilai elections Wang Hui Xi Jinping Africa nationalism governance hierarchy Chiang Kai-shek Chinese Communist Party Deng Xiaoping Great Leap Forward Kuomintang Long March Mao Zedong rape of Nanking Sun Yat-sen Three...
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Inscriptions
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Marcus Bingenheimer
Published: 21 April 2016
... exemplifies how Chinese politicians were less and less interested in the religious dimension of the site after the Song. Exhibit 4, the sole stele that still exists in stone, is an account by Sun Yat-sen, who visited Mount Putuo in 1916 and had a vision there. Though all written by influential politicians...
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Chinese and Cubanidad
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Kathleen López
Published: 10 June 2013
... chronicling the revolution in China noted the significance of the 10th October for both young nations, marking the beginning of an independent Cuba and a modern, republican China. Commentators drew parallels between Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen and Cuban independence leaders Carlos Manuel de Cespedes...
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Postimperial China in an American World
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Christopher A. Ford
Published: 01 July 2015
..., and how these patterns led to the belief that China had entirely different values than the United States under Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek, there were arguments for and against Westernization, as well as for cultural fusion. As the Chinese Communist Party began to develop, Mao derided the American...
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Published: 25 October 2023
... between India and China. Li Dazhao (1889–1927) also embraced this idea of a pan-Asian alternative to the path Japan was following at the time. This chapter ends with a discussion of Sun Yat-sen’s famous essay of 1925, which affirms pan-Asianism but potentially delinks the idea of “Asia” from geography...
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Published: 15 August 2021
... leaders of the insurgency had joined the Revolutionary Alliance, founded by Sun Yat-sen in Japan in 1905. Many of the rebels were killed in battle. The body count was recorded at eighty-six, but only seventy-two of the bodies could be identified. These seventy-two men became the Yellow Flower Hill martyrs...
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Published: 19 April 2012
...–06 Labour Representation Committee Larkin James Liberal Party National Union of Seamen Shiel M P Wallas Graham Wilson Havelock ‘Yellow Peril’ Cardiff China Chinese community in Britain ‘Fu Manchu’ ‘Rohmer Sax’ Sun Yat sen pinyin Sun Yixian Ailwyn Lord Attlee Clement Brockway...
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Some Neglected Chinese Pioneers
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Eric Helleiner
Published: 15 November 2021
... tried to manage the trade with Western merchants. Then, Zheng Guanying's ideas helped to inspire the most influential Chinese neomercantilist in the early twentieth century, Sun Yat-sen. The chapter discusses the aforementioned thinkers' ideologies stemming from older Chinese mercantilist traditions...
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Repossessing the Dead Elsewhere in Our Time
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Michael Kammen
Published: 01 May 2010
... reasons include Sun Yat-sen, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Che Guevara, Marcus Reno, Louis Napoleon III, Manfred Baron von Richthofen, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, and Cecil John Rhodes. This article also looks at exhumations and reburials in Hungary and argues that certain European episodes...
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Shameen and South China
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William Reynolds Braisted
Published: 01 January 2009
...This chapter examines the roots of the May 30, 1925 incident in Shanghai in the power struggle in Kwantung Province. It was there that the heirs of Sun Yat-sen were struggling to control his Kuomintang Party and where the growing communist influence on the cadets of the Whampoa Military Academy led...