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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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Lin Jiang, a professor in the Department of Economics at Sun Yat-sen University, argues that the rise of the loneliness economy is the result of both changing social structures and technological development.

From Barron's Jun. 19, 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

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

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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