This paper aims to investigate how sun wenism became the foremost political doctrine of today's China, wich a major focus upon the developmental processes of historical events.
Sun Wen walked the course of anti-imperialism, anti-Ch'ing revolutionist...
This paper aims to investigate how sun wenism became the foremost political doctrine of today's China, wich a major focus upon the developmental processes of historical events.
Sun Wen walked the course of anti-imperialism, anti-Ch'ing revolutionist to save China from the incompetent Ch'ing dynasty and the economic exploitation of western powers.
Sun Wen initiated his unique Three People's Principles, which acted not only as central ideas behind a series of revolutionary movements in his time but still are providing with a core political ideology for China today.
Under this perspective, this paper is composed of following frameworks.
In Chapter Two, Sun's activities are summerized centering aroung the Tung meng Hui which was established before the shinhai revolution. The organization functioned as a unifying center for the various revolutionary forces that were widely diversified during Sun's esile in Japan. It was during this time that Sun Wenism came into being, acting both as a central idea for the anti-Ch'ing revolution and as an underlying ideology of the foundation of the Republic of China.
Chater three illustrates the development of the shinhai Revolution alng with the then Sun Wen's diplomatic activities. It also clarifies how Sun's revolutionary spirit shows up throughthe progress of the formation of the Republic of China. wian s'kai's anti-revolutionary government which drove the revolution into a failure, and the process of the formation of the Kuomintang are also explained in detail.
Finally, The author tried to point out some limitations of Sun's nationalism and his revolutionary movements and to explain how they influenced the revolutionitself and caused subsequent political events in chiness history.
Sun Wen's nationalism should be understood not as a mere racial emotionalism but as a revelation of modern democracy in that he advocated the people's rights objecting to th imperial despotism. He longed for a democratic government in China and his efforts contributed to the birth of the first republican government in Asia, wherein lies the historical singnificance.