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From exile to Wuchang Uprising
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In
1895 a coup he plotted failed, and for the next sixteen years Sun
was an exile in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan,
raising money for his revolutionary party and bankrolling uprisings
in China. In Japan, where he was known as Nakayama Shō (Kanji: 中山樵,
lit. The Woodcutter of Middle Mountain), he joined dissident Chinese
groups (which later became the Tongmenghui) and soon became their
leader. He was expelled from Japan due to fears of the large level
of support he had there and went to the United States. |
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The official history of the Kuomintang
(and for that matter, the Communist Party of China) emphasizes Sun's
role as the first provisional President, but many historians now
question the importance of Sun's role in the 1911 revolution and
point out that he had no direct role in the Wuchang uprising and was
in fact out of the country at the time. In this interpretation, his
naming as the first provisional President was precisely because he
was a respected but rather unimportant figure and therefore served
as an ideal compromise candidate between the revolutionaries and the
conservative gentry. |
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The photo of the Sun Yat Sen and his friends, so called " Si Da Kou "(Four Great Gangs, 四大寇) in the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (from left to right: Yang Heling, Sun Yat Sen, Chen Shaobai and You Lie, the one standing was Guan Jingliang.). |
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