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Item Details
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THE LOST BOOK OF SUN YATSEN AND EDWIN COLLINS
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| By: |
Patrick Anderson |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£34.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1315534304 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781315534305 |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
25 November, 2016 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Synopsis: |
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 of Sun's dramatic world-famous rescue 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. |
| Illustrations: |
4 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white; 2 Tables, |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
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Non-returnable |
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