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Sun Yat-sen by Marie-Claire Bergere (Paperback, 2000)

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This book argues that the life and work of Sun Yat-sen have been distorted both by the creation of the myth and by the attempts at demythification. Title: Sun Yat-sen. These “utopias” of his, at which his contemporaries heartily jeered, now seem to be so many prophecies.

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Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), the first president of the Republic of China, has left a supremely ambivalent political and intellectual legacy so much so that he is claimed as a Founding Father by both the present rival governments in Taipei and Beijing. In Taiwan, he is the object of a veritable cult; in the People s Republic of China, he is paid homage as pioneer of the revolution, making possible the Party s claims of continuity with the national past. Western scholars, on the other hand, have tended to question the myth of Sun Yat-sen by stressing the man s weaknesses, the thinker s incoherences, and the revolutionary leader s many failures. This book argues that the life and work of Sun Yat-sen have been distorted both by the creation of the myth and by the attempts at demythification. Its aim is to provide a fresh overall evaluation of the man and the events that turned an adventurer into the founder of the Chinese Republic and the leader of a great nationalist movement. The Sun Yat-sen who emerges from this rigorously researched account is a muddled politician, an opportunist with generous but confused ideas, a theorist without great originality or intellectual rigor.

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Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-13
9780804740111
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96832480

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Book Title
Sun Yat-Sen
Author
Marie-Claire Bergere
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
492 Pages

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229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
658g

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Marie-Claire Bergere
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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by iemf65m7930 Oct, 2018
A good book on a historical figure.
It is a long struggle just to overthrow the Manchu government to move China into the modern world of a republic plus other modernization. It is never easy to unite such a big and diversified after the monarchy was gone. The book went through many details which would interest many readers who love intrigue. Sun Yat-sen is not a perfect man in politics, but he did the best he could under the circumstances. Regarding his private life, let it stay private.
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by lpal807026 Sep, 2018
Easy Read.
Excellent unbiased biography of Sun Yat-sen.
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