Sun Yat-Sen: And The Origins Of The Chinese Revolution
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Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
At the dawn of the twentieth century, one man's vision would shatter an empire and reshape the destiny of the world's most populous nation — that man was Sun Yat-sen. Harold Z. Schiffrin's landmark scholarly biography chronicles the formative years of China's founding father, tracing his improbable journey from a modest Cantonese village to the vanguard of a revolutionary movement that toppled over two millennia of imperial rule. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of a decaying Qing dynasty, foreign imperialism, and a China caught between tradition and modernity, the work meticulously reconstructs Sun's early intellectual development, his exposure to Western ideas in Hawaii and Hong Kong, and the founding of his first revolutionary organisations in the 1890s. Schiffrin writes with the precision of a seasoned historian and the narrative command of a biographer who understands that great movements are inseparable from the lives that ignite them. Drawing on an impressive breadth of archival sources in Chinese, Japanese, and English, the work situates Sun Yat-sen within the broader currents of Chinese nationalism, arguing that his peculiar blend of Western liberalism and Chinese reformist thought was neither accidental nor contradictory, but the very engine of his political genius. A cornerstone of modern Chinese historiography, this authoritative study leaves the reader to wonder: how much of the China we know today was forged in the crucible of one revolutionary's restless, relentless ambition?
Author: Harold Z. Schiffrin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, University of California Press
Genre: Biography
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
At the dawn of the twentieth century, one man's vision would shatter an empire and reshape the destiny of the world's most populous nation — that man was Sun Yat-sen. Harold Z. Schiffrin's landmark scholarly biography chronicles the formative years of China's founding father, tracing his improbable journey from a modest Cantonese village to the vanguard of a revolutionary movement that toppled over two millennia of imperial rule. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of a decaying Qing dynasty, foreign imperialism, and a China caught between tradition and modernity, the work meticulously reconstructs Sun's early intellectual development, his exposure to Western ideas in Hawaii and Hong Kong, and the founding of his first revolutionary organisations in the 1890s. Schiffrin writes with the precision of a seasoned historian and the narrative command of a biographer who understands that great movements are inseparable from the lives that ignite them. Drawing on an impressive breadth of archival sources in Chinese, Japanese, and English, the work situates Sun Yat-sen within the broader currents of Chinese nationalism, arguing that his peculiar blend of Western liberalism and Chinese reformist thought was neither accidental nor contradictory, but the very engine of his political genius. A cornerstone of modern Chinese historiography, this authoritative study leaves the reader to wonder: how much of the China we know today was forged in the crucible of one revolutionary's restless, relentless ambition?