Sun Yat-sen
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The Story of Sun Yat Sen
The first emperor of a unified China is usually recognized to be Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin dynasty. Sun Yat Sen was born on November 12, 1866 in Guangdong province in southeastern China. As with my episode on Wu Zetian, I have to give a brief explanation of his name as he went by several names over the course of his life. He was born Sun Deming and was given the name Sun Wen in grade school. When he became involved in politics, he became known as Sun Zhang-chan. And an art name in Chinese is sort of like a pseudonym for writers in English. Once again, that's butcherbox.com slash daily
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