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The Lost Book of Sun Yatsen and Edwin Collins (Paperback)
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The Lost Book of Sun Yatsen and Edwin Collins (Paperback)
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Sun Yatsen (1866-1925) occupies a unique position in modern Chinese
history: he is equally venerated as the founding father of the
nation by both the mainland Communist government and its
Nationalist rival in Taiwan. The first president of the Republic of
China in 1911-12, the peasant-born yet Western-trained Dr Sun was
also a dedicated political theorist, constantly in search of the
ideal political and constitutional blueprint to underpin his
incomplete revolution. A decade before the public emergence in
Japan of his 'Three Principles of the People', and weeks before
even his first slim publication in 1897, Kidnapped in London, Sun
was already hard at work in the Reading Room of the British Museum,
planning his most ambitious book yet: a comprehensive political
treatise in English on the tyrannical misgovernment of the Chinese
nation by the Manchus of the Qing Dynasty. Started then abandoned
twice over, destined never to be completed, let alone published, we
can only conjecture what title this revolutionary book might have
had. The Lost Book of Sun Yatsen and Edwin Collins is the first
study of this lost work in all scholarship, Western or Chinese. It
draws its originality and its themes from three primary sources,
all presented here for the first time. The first is a series of
interconnected lost writings co-authored by Sun Yatsen between 1896
and 1898. The second is the mass of lost political interviews with,
and articles dedicated to, Sun Yatsen and his politics, first
published in the British press in the aftermath the dramatic
world-famous rescue of Sun from inside the Chinese Legation in
London in 1896. The third source is the 'Apostle of the Simple Life
for Children', the Anglo-Jewish Rabbi Edwin Collins (1858-1936), a
devotee and practitioner of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile and the
New Education movement it inspired, who became Sun's writing
collaborator of choice during his years of political exile from
China. Drawing on this wealth of neglected material, Patrick
Anderson's book offers a genuinely fresh perspective on Sun Yatsen
and his political motivations and beliefs.
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