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'''Sun Yat-sen''', or '''Sun Yixian''' ([[Traditional Chinese]]: 孫逸仙; [[Simplified Chinese]]: 孙逸仙; [[Hanyu Pinyin]]: Sūn Yìxiān; [[Jyutping]]: Seon³ Jat⁶ Sin¹), well known in the west as Sun Yat-sen, was the leader of the revolutionary movement that overthrew the [[Qing Dynasty]] of China in 1911.  He founded and led the [[KMT]] or Kuomintang (Nationalist) Party to victory and became the irst leader of the new [[Republic of China]].  However he never held effective power in China himself, because he was too trusting and naive in dealings with leading generals and politicians. His [[Republicanism|republican]] ideas and modernizing vision based on his philosophy of the [[Three Principles of the People]] proved central to [[China]], and he became an iconic hero to the Chinese diaspora across the world.

'''Sun Yat-sen''' was the leader of the revolutionary movement that overthrew the [[Qing dynasty]] of China in 1911.  He founded and led the Nationalist Party to victory and became the irst leader of the new [[Republic of China]].  However he never held effective power in China himself, because he was too trusting and naive in dealings with leading generals and politicians. His [[Republicanism|republican]] ideas and modernizing vision based on his philosophy of the [[Three Principles of the People]] proved central to [[China]], and he became an iconic hero to the Chinese diaspora across the world.

==Origins==

==Origins==

Sun was born near [[Canton]] into a farmland owning family.  He attended an [[Anglican]] boys school in [[Honolulu]].  There he came under Western influence and particularly that of Christianity.  His father was a farmer who had been a tailor in Macao.  At the age of 13, he was sent for an education to the Kingdom of [[Hawaii]] (then an independent country), staying with his prosperous brother Sun Mei, a merchant, between 1879 and 1883. For three years he attended Iolani College, run by the Church of England, and acquired good English. In 1883 he attended two terms at Oahu College (Punahou School); he possibly also attended St. Louis College, a Catholic institution. His lifelong Christianity was formed in large part by his years in Hawaii. He attended Queens College in Hong Kong briefly, and was baptized there by an American missionary.<ref>Irma Tam Soong, "Sun Yat-sen's Christian Schooling in Hawai`i." ''Hawaiian Journal of History'' 1997 31: 151-178. Issn: 0440-5145  </ref>  

Sun was born near [[Canton]] into a farmland owning family.  He attended an [[Anglican]] boys school in [[Honolulu]].  There he came under Western influence and particularly that of Christianity.  His father was a farmer who had been a tailor in Macao.  At the age of 13, he was sent for an education to the Kingdom of [[Hawaii]] (then an independent country), staying with his prosperous brother Sun Mei, a merchant, between 1879 and 1883. For three years he attended Iolani College, run by the Church of England, and acquired good English. In 1883 he attended two terms at Oahu College (Punahou School); he possibly also attended St. Louis College, a Catholic institution. His lifelong Christianity was formed in large part by his years in Hawaii. He attended Queens College in Hong Kong briefly, and was baptized there by an American missionary.<ref>Irma Tam Soong, "Sun Yat-sen's Christian Schooling in Hawai`i." ''Hawaiian Journal of History'' 1997 31: 151-178. Issn: 0440-5145  </ref>