Sun Yat-sen
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noun
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The couple’s most prominent advocate was Soong Ching-ling, the American-educated widow of Republican China’s founder, Sun Yat-sen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
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
Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators at Sun Yat-sen University, China applied single-cell technologies and advanced imaging to analyse human skeletal muscle samples from 17 individuals across the adult lifespan.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024
We played capture-the-flag in the auditorium, where Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek’s pictures hung at the back of the stage, the Chinese flag on their left and the American flag on their right.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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