Word: yatsen
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...command er, but their Dutch uncle seems to be Premier Chou Enlai. He recently ordered cadre leaders to stop beating up Chinese and removing art from public buildings. He also told them to stop pasting up the big-character wall poster that denounced the widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen, the founder of the first Chinese Republic...
Even the Guards were disagreeing; in a clash of absurdities in Canton, one group of young hotheads tried to tear down a bronze statue of Sun Yatsen, whom they called a "capitalist reactionary," only to be attacked by another group that felt he was the father of the Chinese revolution...
...peripatetic Premier Chou Enlai. As Chou's road show pulled into Colombo last week, it was clear that he had taken advance precautions to ease his confrontation with the formidable first lady. Included in his entourage for the first time was Soong Ching-ling, widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen, founder of modern China, and sister of Mme. Chiang Kaishek. A rheumatic lady of 74, Soong Ching-ling fell out with her family during China's civil war, stayed on the mainland after the Communist takeover, won a Stalin Peace Prize in 1951, now lives in relative obscurity...
...observe the Russian Revolution firsthand, got bounced from the country by the Soviets for his adverse editorial views, landed in China with one Yankee dollar in his pocket, and stayed 14 years in Asia as a correspondent, political adviser and friend of China's revolutionary leader, Dr. Sun Yatsen. Returning to the U.S. in 1935, he started his sternly anti-Communist political punditry in the New York Herald Tribune, moved to the Sun and later to the Hearst chain...
Fifty years ago on the tenth day of the tenth month in 1911, the city of Wuchang on the Yangtze River was captured by a band of rebel followers of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen. It took another four months of fighting before the decadent Manchu empire was overthrown by Sun Yat-sen's republicans, but Chinese everywhere have always celebrated the "Double Ten" date as a national holiday...