| 3. | Sun Yat Sen and the awakening of China
Paperback by James Cantlie. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: m THE RISE OF A GREAT TYRANNY TO understand aright the Chinese Revolution—the most remarkable event surely of our time—we must realize the nature of the forces opposing Sun Yat Sen and his supporters. We must find out, in fact, upon what the Manchus based their apparently impregnable despotism. The story is a fascinating one—almost as fascinating as it is sinister. In nothing is it more remarkable than this: that while the Manchus, once upon the Chinese throne, professed to be opposed inexorably to change, and determined to preserve intact and at all costs the institutions of the country, and while to all appearance they succeeded in doing so, yet in actual fact they contrived, all unsuspected, to transmute the whole character of China's government and civilization. In this single fact we have the key to a dominion as mysterious as it was powerful —the dominion of a barbaric Tartar clan over an ancient empire. That their Manchurulers were foreigners was always keenly felt by the Chinese. Most wisely, therefore, did the Manchus show all the deference proper in foreigners to Chinese forms of government, but none the less did they change the spirit of that government as completely as if they had thrown everything into the melting-pot. It is no exaggeration to say that the Empire Sun Yat Sen has overthrown was more alien to that of his forefathers than the Republic he has established, and the great achievement of the Revolution has been to restore China to her true, her normal self. It is easy to explain this paradox. Consider for a moment the working of the normal Chinese autocracy in the pre-Manchu days. It was absolutely different to all the despotisms of the East. Such a thing, for instance, as the sudden elevation by the Emperor of grooms and barbers to high official pos...
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| 4. | Dr. Sun Yat-sen (Chinese with English Subtitle)
DVD featuring Liu Wenzhi. This movie narrates the eventual struggling life of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic of China. At his young age Sun plans to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. For more than thirty years he leads one revolution after another. This movie reveals his unconquerable determination through his revolutionary career.
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| 6. | Strange Vigour - A Biography of Sun Yat-Sen
Hardcover by Bernard Martin. The life of a Chinese national hero. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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| 9. | Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost
Paperback by Jonathan Fenby. With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of Nationalist China’s generalissimo as it reevaluates his brave but unfulfilled life. Chiang Kai-shek was one of the most influential world figures of the twentieth century. The leader of the Kuomintang, the Nationalist movement in China, by 1928 he had established himself as head of the government in Nanking. But while he managed to survive the political storms of the 1930s, Chiang’s power was continually being undermined by the Japanese on one side and the Chinese Communists on the other. Drawing extensively on original Chinese sources and accounts by contemporaneous journalists, acclaimed author Jonathan Fenby explores little-known international connections in Chiang’s story as he unfolds a story as fascinating in its conspiratorial intrigues as it is remarkable for its psychological insights. This is the definitive biography of the man who, despite his best intentions, helped create modern-day China.
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