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Sun Yat-sen and the West: Western Influence on His Life and Thought
Author(s): Key Ray Chong (Author)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 July 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 472 pages
- ISBN-10: 077341357X
- ISBN-13: 9780773413573
Book Description
This book mainly deals with two aspects of Sun’s life: his ‘revolutionary activities’ and any ‘influence of the Western ideas on his thought’. For his revolutionary activites, the author traces the ways how sun had formulated his ‘revolutionary’ ideas through his associations with his like-minded contemporaries such as He Qi, Zheng Guanying, and Wang Tao, and members of his revolutionary society, the China Revive Society. The book then moves toward a discussion of the Western/Christian influence and assistance Sun had received before and after the 1911 revolution. He book ends with a chapter on China’s return to the global economy under Deng, to indicate the relationship between the changes since the 1980s under the Chinese Communist Party and Sun’s long-held desire to make China a wealthy and powerful nation.
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About the Author
Prof. Key Ray Chong was a professor of history at Soka University, Tokyo, Japan. He earned his Ph.D. in 1967 from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. He is the author of four scholarly books on chinese history and thought. He retired to Los Angeles, California.
