... military cadets in the United States. Homer Lea may be largely forgotten but he was an extraordinary man. He served as a general in the Chinese army and was Sun Yat-sen's military advisor, all of this achieved despite much ill health. In 1909, he predicted that a future war between Japan and the United...

...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...

..., 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...