How Can Sun Yixian Be Considered The Father Of The Chinese Revolution

To what extent can Sun Yixian be considered the father of the Chinese Revolution?

Sun Yixian can be considered the father of the Chinese Revolution as he is contemporarily titled both officially and unofficially in different areas of China as "Forerunner of the Revolution" and National Father, Mr. Sun Chungshan (Yixian). Sun was also the first president of the Chinese Provisional Government, funded the revolutions, kept the spirit of revolution alive, successfully merged minor revolutionary groups to a single larger party, providing a better base for all those who shared the same ideals, founded the National Party and devised a logical philosophy called Three Principles of the People which became the basis of the new society and still heavily
Sun is credited for the funding of the revolutions and for keeping the spirit of revolution alive, even after series of failed uprisings. He also founded the National Party and then successfully merged minor revolutionary groups to a single larger party, providing a better base for all those who shared the same ideals and formed a political alliance with the Chinese Communist Party. After the Wuchang Uprising, on December 29, a meeting of representatives from provinces in Nanjing elected Sun as the provisional President of the Republic of China. The Three Principles of the People was a philosophy developed by Sun Yixian in August 1905, as part of a program to make China a free, prosperous, and powerful nation. These three principles were nationalism, democracy and peoplefs livelihood.Various aspects of Sun's thoughts were adopted by the Nationalists after their rise to power in 1928 and still heavily influence Chinese government today. Through these various events it is clear why Sun Yixian is considered the father of the Chinese Revolution, and to an extent he can fairly claim this
Sun had no direct role in the Wuchang uprising and was in fact out of the country at the time. It is suggested by historians that eHis naming as the first provisional President was precisely because he was a respected but rather unimportant figuref . More over Sun Yixian was a Christian who was educated by and received aid from foreign powers which goes against some of the nationalistic reasons for the revolution in the first place. He was educated in Hawaii and British Hong Kong, converted to Christianity and in the early 1920s Sun received help from the Russian Comintern. Sun Yixian was also the first president for only a very short period of time before he promised Yuan Shikai the presidency of the new Republic in order for him to side with the revolution and force the emperor to abdicate, allowing China to be controlled under Yuanfs dictatorial methods. Sun never even lived to see his party bring about consolidation of power over the country. Hence Sun Yixian can only be considered as the father of the Chinese Revolution to a small