Sun Yat-sen

American

[soon yaht-sen] / ˈsʊn ˈyɑtˈsɛn /

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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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

In this new study, scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Sun Yat-sen University, and their collaborators analysed tissues between 5 and 9 weeks of development.

From Science Daily • Dec. 6, 2023

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

The Guomindang was led by Sun Yat-sen from 1912 until his death in 1925.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

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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