Was Sun Yat-sen a revolutionary?

In his own 'Three Principles of the People'; Sun Yat-sen claimed "Nothing short of a revolution would provide the remedy" to China's humiliation and backwardness. May Matossian believes that significant revolutions occur in response to historical, social and economic changes. The most challenging of these is when an industrially backward nation meets one more advanced and James Gregor and Maria Hsia Chang clarify this process as reactive nationalism.They depict Sun as Kuo fu, father …

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