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As a subject of historical study and political analysis Sun Yat-sen has already been sharply characterized by the major ideological schools which contended for the mind of China after his death: Kuomintang nationalists apotheosize him as a veritable sage, while Chinese Communist historians usually r...

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Published inThe Journal of Asian Studies (pre-1986) Vol. 17; no. 2; p. 262
Main Author HAROLD SCHIFFRIN FANG CHAO-YING
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Pittsburgh Duke University Press, NC & IL 01.02.1958
Subjects
Bolshevism
Chinese languages
Communism
Confucius (551-479 BC)
Ideology
Politics
China
Hong Kong China
Russia
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Summary:As a subject of historical study and political analysis Sun Yat-sen has already been sharply characterized by the major ideological schools which contended for the mind of China after his death: Kuomintang nationalists apotheosize him as a veritable sage, while Chinese Communist historians usually relegate him to the pigeon-hole labeled "nationalist-bourgeois-democratic." (In a recent essay the veteran revolutionary Wu YU-chang, one of the few among Sun's old comrades who made an early transition to Communism, concluded that rightfully Sun should not be accorded peasant-class status, that since he was brought up...
ISSN:0021-9118
1752-0401