Sun Yat-sen = Chinese revolutionary, the "Father of Modern China" who became the first provisional president of the Republic of China
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You know Sun Yat-sen, hah?†
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Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, 1989
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The men had cut their pigtails to defy the Manchus and to help Sun Yat-sen, fellow Cantonese.†
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Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1975
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She poured sake for the great German writer Thomas Mann, who afterward told her a long, dull story through an interpreter that went on and on for nearly an hour; as well as Charlie Chaplin, and Sun Yat-sen, and later Ernest Hemingway, who got very drunk and said the beautiful red lips on her white face made him think of blood in the snow.†
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Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, 1997
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Right now in this country, with its many national groups, all the old heroes are being called back to life-Jefferson, Jackson, Pulaski, Garibaldi, Booker T. Washington, Sun Yat-sen, Danny O'Connell, Abraham Lincoln and countless others are being asked to step once again upon the stage of history.†
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Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952
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At the end of the program, the faculty turned their backs to the students, and everyone bowed the three bows toward the picture of Doctor Sun Yat-sen, who was a western surgeon before he became a revolutionary.†
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Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1975