Dr. Sun Yat-Sen is revered in China (and Taiwan) as the founder of modern China.
He became one of the first medical doctors to graduate from the Hong Kong College of Medicine, in 1892. In Hong Kong he plotted a coup against the Chinese Emperor Qing, which failed. He spent the next 16 years in exile in Canada, U.S.A., and Japan,
A military uprising in 1911 ended five thousand years of Imperial rule in China. Sun Yat-Sen returned to China and was offered the post as President of the Republic of China. He established the organizational rule of government, and the basic laws of the land.
The military of the northern states forced Sun out in 1913, and he retreated to Japan. He returned to China, and in 1923 became President again. He established the "Three Principles of the People" as the foundation of the country.
In March 1925 he died of liver cancer in Beijing at the age of 59.
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