Word: yatsen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...emigrated to the land of his race, joining the Chinese Government service in Peking. Later he edited, and still later bought the Peking Gazette. At the close of 1917 he was in jail for writing anti-Japanese articles. Pardoned, he joined the Nationalist party of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, at Canton, and was sent to the Paris Peace Conference with the Cantonese representative, Dr. C. C. Wu. When the new Nationalist Government began its conquest of South China (TIME, April 5) he became its "Foreign Minister...
...Soong, 33, a graduate of the Harvard School of Business Administration, later employed by the International Banking Corp. at Manhattan, now the outstanding civil leader at Hankow, partly because he is the brother-in-law of the late founder of the Nationalist movement, famed Dr. Sun Yatsen. He and his sister, the pretty widow, serve to remind soldiers and coolies of the great revolutionary name. 2) Eugene Chen, Foreign Secretary of the Nationalist Government, who employs a white U. S. citizen, as his under secretary, and said last week: "We are not antiforeign, but anti-imperial. We are not against...
...Peking at all. Next day the press of Shanghai, quick to take a hint, sadly urged its readers to "make the best of the fact that Great Britain is eventually going to recognize the Cantonese Government at Wuchang." Meanwhile from Canton there set out Mrs. Sun Yatsen, widow of the first President of China (Jan.-Feb. 1912), famed revolutionary statesman Dr. Sun Yatsen, who founded the Cantonese Government (1917) as a rival to Peking, but died in Peking (1925) before the recent Cantonese conquest of the whole southern half of China. With Widow Sun Yat-sen a devout widow, traveled...
...explosion was the signal for revolutionaries who toppled the Manchu dynasty in ruins, and built unsteadily out of the debris the north-central republic under Yuan Shih-kai and the rival southern republic under Sun Yatsen. Both these "presidents" died,-the former at the height of power, allegedly by poison; the latter a weary exile in cold Peking. China became the spoil of numerous Tuchuns or provincial governors. One year ago, on "the tenth day of the tenth month," there was a relatively stable northern Government at Peking, and the southern Government at Canton weltered in the doldrums of impotence...
...with sympathy parades for the Shanghai strikers. Threats against the foreign population at Canton and Hong-Kong were heard. Foreign troops were landed for the protection of life and property. Strikes were declared, business halted. Suddenly, another situation was superimposed on the first. After the death of Dr. Sun Yatsen (TIME, Mar. 23), leader of the South China Party, his adherents split into two factions: a radical, which retained the name Kuo Mintang; a conservative, formed from Sun's Yünnan supporters, called the Yünnanese Party. The Yünnanese controlled Canton. The Kuo Mintang controlled...