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University of California Press

Sun Yat-Sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution

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Title: Sun Yat-Sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution
Author: Harold Schiffrin
ISBN: 9780520017528
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: New
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Publisher Description:
The enigmatic personal qualities that marked Sun Yat-sen during his lifetime have encouraged controversy concerning him ever since his death more than a generation ago. Mr. Schiffrin's book deals with the first forty years of Sun's life, and attempts to find the key to this controversial personality. His study is at once biography and history, for it goes beyond Sun to the whole texture of Chinese history of Sun's time. Drawing on diplomatic archives, police reports, personal interviews, contemporary newspapers, and other hitherto unused sources in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages, the author reveals unsuspected facets of Sun's versatile plotting on three continents, and traces the convolutions of his pragmatic style in unprecedented detail.