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Sun Yat-sen
Case File · China

Sun Yat-sen

1866–1925 · World Leaders · Quotes · Liberators
The Record

The father of modern China, Sun Yat-sen helped end two thousand years of imperial rule in the 1911 Revolution and founded the Republic on his Three Principles of the People — nationalism, democracy, and the people's livelihood.

The Contradiction

He toppled an empire in the name of democracy — then argued the people weren't ready for it yet, prescribing a stage of one-party 'political tutelage' to govern them until they were. To unify the fractured republic he leaned on warlord alliances and Soviet aid. The democrat who decided democracy must wait. Liberty as a destination, guardianship for the road.

The Doctrine

“A people must first be guided to freedom before they can be trusted to govern it.”

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