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The Life and Legacy of Sun Yat-sen: From Poverty to Revolutionary Leader
TLDR Sun Yat-sen, a Chinese revolutionary leader, played a crucial role in the downfall of the Qing dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China. Despite facing numerous challenges and failed uprisings, his efforts paved the way for political change and modernization in China.
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China, which had been under imperial rule for over 2,000 years, became a republic in the early 20th century due to the downfall of the Qing dynasty and the efforts of Sun Yat-sen.
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Sun Yat-sen, born in 1866 in Guangdong Province, China, went by several names throughout his life but is best known by his art name, Sun Yat-sen, and he was born into a poor family and sent to live with his older brother in Honolulu, Hawaii at the age of 13.
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Sun Yat-sen returned to China from Hawaii with American citizenship and a newfound perspective on the poverty and corruption in his village, leading him to join a group of students seeking political change and modernization in China.
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Sun Yat-sen founded the Revive China Society in Hawaii to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, but his first rebellion in Guangzhou failed and he had to flee to Japan, where he developed his three principles of the people and attempted another uprising in Weizhou.
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Sun Yat-sen's early uprisings failed, causing a split among Chinese revolutionaries, but he was elected provisional president of the New Republic of China after the successful revolution in 1911.
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Sun Yat-sen's goal of unifying China failed, leading him to work with the Chinese Communist Party and the Soviet Union to fight against warlords, but he never achieved his goal of making China a unified democratic republic.
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Sun Yat-sen's failures as a military leader and revolutionary were overshadowed by his success as a statesman and his efforts to build support for Chinese republicanism.
