Sun Yat-sen

American

[soon yaht-sen] / ˈsʊn ˈjɑtˈsɛn /

Pinyin, Sun Yixian

noun

1866–1925, Chinese political and revolutionary leader.

Sun Yat-sen British

/ ˈsʊn ˈjɑːtˈsɛn /

noun

1866–1925, Chinese statesman, who was instrumental in the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty and was the first president of the Republic of China (1911). He reorganized the Kuomintang

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Sun Yat-sen

The KMT leader also travelled to the eastern city of Nanjing, where she visited the mausoleum of revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen, one of the few Chinese historical figures revered in both Beijing and Taipei.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

An international team led by scientists at Sun Yat-sen University and the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has launched an ambitious experiment known as MACE.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026

Another analysis, posted on bioRxiv by Yingfeng Zheng at Sun Yat-sen University and colleagues on 26 March, investigated 45,000 preprints before and after ChatGPT became available and estimated 5% of the latter include AI-generated text.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 16, 2024

The area seemed ripe for research, so Qiaoping Wang and Guohui Wan, both drug-development researchers at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, decided to dive in.

From Scientific American ● May 16, 2023

“We are a smart people, very strong, tricky, and famous for winning wars. You know Sun Yat-sen, hah?”

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

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