Sun Yat-sen (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Grace Yaukey
- First Published: 1967
- Time of Work: 1866–1925
- Setting: Choyhung, Canton, Nanking, Peking, and Shanghai, China; Hong Kong; Honolulu, Hawaii; London; Macao; and San Francisco
- Principal Characters: Sun Yat-sen, Sun Mei, Lu Hao-tung, Soong Yao-ju, Dr. James Cantlie, William Henry Donald, Soong Ching-ling, Yuan Shih-kai, Chiang Kai-shek
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Politics, Revolutionaries, Leadership, Revolutions, Doctors, Asia or Asians, Rulers, China or Chinese people, Biography
- Locales: London, England, San Francisco, CA, China, Hong Kong, Macao, Honolulu, HI
Form and Content
Cornelia Spencer’s Sun Yat-sen: Founder of the Chinese Republic is a biography and a history text. Spencer’s beautifully narrated account discusses the stirring life of Sun Yat-sen from his birth in November, 1866, to his death in March, 1925, within the context of the major political events during this period. The book develops chronologically in four parts and sixteen chapters; each part or chapter focuses on a different subject, as reflected in subtitles.
The first part traces the shaping of Sun Yat-sen’s revolutionary ideas from his...
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