Statecraft & Independence
Peerless
Sun Yat-sen
1866 – 1925
Father of the nation and first provisional president of the Republic of China
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Why they are here
The revolutionary whose movement helped end more than two thousand years of imperial rule and who served as the first provisional president of the Republic of China in 1912.
Sun Yat-sen trained as a doctor in Hong Kong and spent years in exile organising and raising funds for revolution against the Qing dynasty. After the Wuchang Uprising of 1911 he was chosen as provisional president of the new republic, a post he soon yielded to Yuan Shikai.
His Three Principles of the People, nationalism, democracy and the livelihood of the people, became the founding ideology of the Kuomintang. He is honoured on both sides of the Taiwan Strait as the father of modern China.
His Three Principles of the People, nationalism, democracy and the livelihood of the people, became the founding ideology of the Kuomintang. He is honoured on both sides of the Taiwan Strait as the father of modern China.
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