China Republic

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Sun Yat-Sen, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiao Ping
Cesar Martans
25 September 2012

Sun Yixian or Sun Yat Sen; Choihang, 1866 - Beijing, 1925) Chinese Politics. Founder of the republic in China, was the foremost representative of nationalism in his country. The son of peasants from Kwangtung, the southernmost province of China, where foreign presence dating back to earliest times and who are motivatedby economic transformations colonial exploitation.

Very soon left China to meet his brother in Hawaii shortly before the establishment of U.S. bases in the islands, where he began his studies at a British missionary school, in a strongly marked by a rationalist and positivist orientation matrix Western, and faith in the technological and scientific progress.

Completely surprising, therefore,to the Confucian cultural tradition, when he returned to his homeland open propaganda against tradition and superstition, and because of the violent reaction of the peasants, took refuge in Hong Kong in 1883, where he completed his studies and obtained, in 1892, a diploma that allowed the practice of medicine, by then converted to Christianity.

During this period, he contacted the Chinesesecret societies, and began his conspiratorial activity antidinástica: in 1894 he founded the Association for the renewal of China (Hsing Chung Hui), that the following year attempted a first blow in Guangzhou, capital of Kwangtung. At banned from returning to the country, Sun Yat Sen made a study trip to Europe and the United States, where he devoted himself to campaigning and organizing activitiesamong Chinese immigrants.

Fled the Chinese secret police, who had abducted to carry it home, where it waited for a death sentence (about this episode wrote the autobiographical pamphlet Kidnapped in London, printed in England in 1897), did not give up in those years exile to organize from Japan and Indochina continued attempts at insurrection in southern China, always bloodily repressed.

In1905 he founded in Japan the T'ung Meng Hui, soon established itself as the largest Chinese revolutionary party, and Min Pao newspaper, which had a great influence among young Chinese intellectuals. Sun Yat Sen outlined during those years the main lines of his revolutionary program, which later became The three principles of the people in their world, the material needs of the people had a role andtherefore gave an importance priority to the political and economic transformation of Chinese archaic social structures.

 
Sun Yat Sen in his works devoted constant attention to the search for concrete solutions to these problems; Western intellectual training, was inspired by the West to achieve appropriate legal and political instruments with which to modernize China from the highest levels.Western influence also denotes his nationalism, which came together, in varying degrees, American-inspired democratic conceptions, together with authoritarianism, technocratic positivism and aspirations. So vividly contradicts his nationalism, believed deeply beneficial Western influence, which was already inherent in China because of foreign domination.

After the victorious October 1911uprising against the Manchu Dynasty, Sun Yat Sen triumphantly returned to Shanghai and was elected (January 1912) president of the newly born Republic of China, which then encompassed only the southern provinces. Failed attempts of reunification, and after resigning from his post in February 1912, Sun Yat Sen and his followers were progressively marginalized from positions of greater responsibility,and was even the subject of a violent persecution. In 1913 he was forced to take refuge again in Japan, where he tried to take back control of their movement, founding in 1914 the Kuomintang Revolutionary Party.

In the following years he tried several times to rebuild a Republican Chinese government, from the ashes of the state apparatus created in 1911. Only in 1920 managed to re-establish a...
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