Word: yatsen
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...disparagement to say that her own family, the great House of Soong, is more potent. Mrs. Chiang's brother is Finance Minister T. V. Soong; one of her brothers-in-law is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius, H. H. Kung; a second was the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, sainted father of the Nationalist Party which now dominates all China. Since Mrs. Hoover's father was a prosperous American banker and Mrs. Chiang's a vastly rich Chinamerchant, neither has ever been in meager circumstances...
...University of California B. A. 1916, Columbia M.S. 1917, and onetime (1921-22) Mayor of Canton, is the son of the late, adored founder of the Nationalist Party, Dr. Sun Yatsen...
...evidence. The new Chief Executive simply bowed three times before a portrait of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen (founder of the Nationalist Party), swore to uphold Dr. Sun's famed Three Nationalist Principles, and finally invoked three times as a potent witness the spirit of SUN YATSEN. When President Chiang had thus sworn, he was followed in the same ritual by five lesser Presidents, each of whom will administer one of the five Yuans into which the Nationalists have now divided China for executive purposes...
Presumably Young Chiang's utter change of principle resulted from his having been drawn into the orbit of Dr. Sun Yatsen, great and pure apostle of the Chinese Democracy that is yet to be. After winning Dr. Sun's confidence by brilliant service in the field, Chiang became his private secretary and served devotedly through all the vicissitudes of the South China Republic, founded by Dr. Sun at Canton. When the Great Leader died in 1925, Disciple Chiang Kai-shek had just completed an arrangement with the Russian Soviet Government whereby millions of rubles were furnished to equip the Nationalist...
...told at epic length, for it was marked by heroic vicissitudes. At one time, sorely defeated, the Generalissimo resigned his command and retired to his native village (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927). Within a few months he had cheered up, married a sister of the surviving widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen, and was seen victoriously back in the fray. Just as Russia had supplied the cash and propaganda to assist Chiang in conquering South China, so a new ally appeared to lend crushing weight to Nationalism's conquest of the North. This new ally was (and is) the so-called "Christian...