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Sun Yat-sen

American  
[soon yaht-sen] / ˈsʊn ˈjɑtˈsɛn /
Pinyin, Sun Yixian

noun

  1. 1866–1925, Chinese political and revolutionary leader.


Sun Yat-sen British  
/ ˈsʊn ˈjɑːtˈsɛn /

noun

  1. 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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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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