Word: yatsen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first year of T.V.'s life, his father's great friend, a dour little local doctor named Sun Yatsen, performed a historic act. He sent a petition, as was the right of every queued Manchu subject, to the viceroy of the Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi -to grant China western reforms...
...taipans (rich merchants). She has relatively little to say about Chinese politics ("I have not sold my soul to any political party"), though she prefers the Chungking Government to the Communists and insists that stories of quarreling among the Soong sisters (Mesdames Chiang Kaishek, H. H. Kung and Sun Yatsen) are just leftist propaganda. But readers of China to Me will learn something about China's impact on Emily, almost everything about Emily's impact on China...
Kuomintang cannot, however, expect to continue in its ruling position for long without intelligently facing the irresistible force of history and acting accordingly with a boldness that has been lacking in recent years. It has fallen dangerously behind the times and the objectives of Dr. Sun Yatsen. Let's hope it is not yet too late to catch up. Real friends of China can do a great deal in this respect, especially in view of the fact that Kuomintang is intrinsically more disposed toward cooperation with Western democracies, a point that has been overlooked somehow by China...
...entered Chinese politics at the age of 27, with a plot to assassinate a Manchu prince. After his release from jail, he studied sociology and political science in France and Japan. Later, as an active Chinese nationalist, he became a devoted disciple of China's liberator, Dr. Sun Yatsen...
...Great Error. Sun Yatsen, said his son, had always been a revolutionary leftist...