Word: yatsen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three principles, as formulated by Sun Yatsen: Nationalism, or a free and equal China; People's Rights, or a democratic, constitutional China; People's Livelihood, or an economically progressive China...
...Generalissimo was pledged to establish the social and humanistic democracy envisaged by Sun Yatsen. He no longer sought unity by the sword. In 1941 he had proclaimed: "At no future time could there conceivably be another campaign for the suppression of the Communists." Last March he had reaffirmed his policy of seeking "a political solution" to the Communist problem...
...last moment, the Generalissimo personally took part in the talks. He could not, he pointed out, tolerate an armed state within the state. He was the steward of China's destiny. His charge had come from the great Sun Yatsen, and he would yield nothing of the ultimate responsibility for China's government. General Chou would not budge either. In Chungking's concessions he saw no termination of "one-party dictatorship." But the political crux of the matter was that Yenan's one-party dictatorship dared not, any more than Chungking, surrender control over the military...
Donald's career as a powerful oriental factotum began with Sun Yatsen. After his successful revolution had overthrown China's 300-year-old Manchu dynasty in 1911, Dr. Sun needed someone to communicate his ideas, help work out his plans. Donald became his adviser. A newspaperman, he had arrived in China in 1902, via Sydney's Daily Telegraph, to go to work for Hong Kong's China Mail. He was Shanghai correspondent for James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald when Dr. Sun heard about him. Donald, profoundly moved by the revolution...
...business career in China. He was 29, a middling success as a coal-&-iron merchant, a young family man married to a former missionary-school belle, Lu-Yee Chang, when history knocked at his door again. As usual, history had the face of Dr. Sun Yatsen...