Sun+Yat-sen

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 * A Chinese National born in 1866 educated in Hawaii and Hong Kong where he was exposed to western style government and began to build support for revolution by traveling for recruiting and fund raising. Created the Three people's principals. Started the KMT which started a successful uprising against the Manchu Dynasty. He would soon be claimed president of the Chinese Republic soon to be pushed out by Yuan Shih-K'ai.
 * **The Three People's Principles: (Sounds like westernizations but they aren't)**
 * 1)  Nationalism **:**
 * ** They had these ideas to originate in start out with about democracy and economy but they were learning form the west how to apply them from their strengths and weaknesses. **
 * ** China has always nationalistic. **
 * ** It was a Chinese idea that has been around forever. **
 * 1) Democracy :
 * ** According to Sun Yat-Sen the most important thing about democracy is the people's needs. **
 * ** So the government needs to serve these needs and if they don’t they will be out. **
 * ** Problem with democracy: **
 * ** Elections: **
 * ** They are very unstable and people can make bad choices and regret it. **
 * ** He wants the peoples opinion but by having someone that is liked by the people but not voted by the people. **
 * ** You don’t need elections you just need a government and a leader that is willing to do what the public wants done. Its government FOR the people. **
 * ** They want to add examination and censorship **
 * ** Civil service system: **
 * ** Anyone could study hard and work their way up on the ladder of power. **
 * ** Merit based system. **
 * ** People take tests **
 * ** Bureaucracy **
 * ** Goes back to Confucianism **
 * 1) **Livelihood**
 * ** During his tours of the West he felt that the inequalities are too prominent--the gap between rich and poor. **
 * ** He wanted to close off this. **
 * ** He felt it needed to be balanced. **
 * ** He was not communist. **
 * ** He wanted to modernize and industrialize but it needs to be beneficial towards the whole opposed to just one group. **
 * ** He isn't against private property **
 * ** Industrial socialism **


 * Sun Yat-Sen Leads Antidynastic Forces
 * Born 186 to a poor farming family
 * Studied in Hawaii thanks to successful businessman brother
 * <span style="color: navy; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Later studied medicine in Hong Kong - British colony on southern coast
 * <span style="color: navy; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Turned to revolution after 1890
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Created the Three People’s Principles
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Program formulated by Sun - showed western political and social influence
 * 1) Nationalism - overthrow Manchus (who were a minority ethnic-cultural group) as well as recovery of China's rights from imperialists
 * 2) Democracy - liberal republic, people would be sovereign through representative government
 * 3) Livelihood - combination of industrial socialism and land reform to ensure that cultivators owned their land
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">1905 - organized group of students, literati, and military officers into political party
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Kuomintang (The National People's Part or Nationalist Part)
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Between 1906 and 1911 attempted 10 unsuccessful uprisings
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">11th attempt on October 10, 1911 (called Double Tenth) at Wuhan - important industrial center
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Spread quickly
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Sun returned from fundraising on December 25, 4 days later elected provisional president
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Woman fought, but did not get equality in the early republic