Revolutionary: Sun Yat-sen

Author: Li Wenhua
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Sun Yat-sen was the pioneer of modern democratic revolution in China and a great democratic revolutionary. He dedicated his life to the Chinese revolution, achieving two great accomplishments—first, overthrowing the Qing Dynasty, which had ruled China for 268 years, thus ending the 2,133-year-old monarchy since Qin Shi Huang; second, raising the banner of anti-imperialism and anti-warlordism, firmly implementing the "United Front of the Three Policies" (unite with Russia, unite with the Communists, and support peasants and workers), establishing the revolutionary united front of the Three Principles of the People and communism, and promoting the development of the domestic revolutionary wars. He experienced countless failures in his life but achieved the greatest success from them. In the dialectical unity of failure and success, he forged his character. Sun Yat-sen was great, yet ordinary. He was born as a commoner and died as a commoner, proving that greatness can be found in ordinariness. Let us walk into Sun Yat-sen, understand him, and him, him.