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Sun Wen Memorial Park

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Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
Sun Wen Memorial Park
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Xingzhong Rd, Zhongshan Shi, Guangdong Sheng, China

Sun Yat-sen was the founding father of the Republic of China. The first provisional president of the Republic of China, Sun was a Chinese medical doctor, writer, philosopher, Georgist, calligrapher and revolutionary. As the foremost pioneer and first leader of a Republican China, Sun is referred to as the Father of the Nation in the Republic of China and the forerunner of democratic revolution in the People's Republic of China . Sun played an instrumental role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty during the years leading up to the Xinhai Revolution. He was appointed to serve as Provisional President of the Republic of China when it was founded in 1912. He later co-founded the Kuomintang , serving as its first leader. Sun was a uniting figure in post-Imperial China, and he remains unique among 20th-century Chinese politicians for being widely revered amongst the people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Although Sun is considered to be one of the greatest leaders of modern China, his political life was one of constant struggle and frequent exile. After the success of the revolution and the Han Chinese regaining power after 268 years of living under Manchurian rule , he quickly resigned from his post as President of the newly founded Republic of China to Yuan Shikai, and led successive revolutionary governments as a challenge to the warlords who controlled much of the nation. Sun did not live to see his party consolidate its power over the country during the Northern Expedition. His party, which formed a fragile alliance with the Chinese Communist Party, split into two factions after his death. Sun's chief legacy resides in his developing of the political philosophy known as the Three Principles of the People: nationalism , “rights of the people,” sometimes translated as “democracy,” and the people's livelihood .
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