Sun Yat-sen 

(1866-1925)

"Father of China"

came up with the "Three Principles of the People"

1. Get rid of Qing/Manchu dynasty

2. Create a strong Chinese government to resist the West

3. Land reform: redistribute land 

-in other words, a socialist

-welcomes communists

*organized the Guomindang(GMD),ie, the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP)

won control of China, him and Yat-sen married sisters

*is a capitalist

*kicked communists out of CNP

*tried to industrialize China

*unites China by creating a series of alliances with local warlords and works to weaken the communists

*is a communist that rises to power 

*is leader of the Communist Party of China (CCP)

*leaves Shanghi and went to the countryside (focuses on peasants/contribution to communism)

*Hunan Providence

participated in the Long March

• survived the Long March
• denounced Cultural Revolution
• denounced the 9 Bads
• replaced 9 Bads with Four Modernizations

1. Agriculture- decollectivization- returned land to farmers, promoted individual property ownership

2. industry- opened China to foreign investors, very important in shaping the global economy, welcomed McDonalds, Coca Cola, IBM, etc. 

3. National Defense

4. Science and Technology

• created the Eight Bigs, or what everyone should own in their house

• calls for 5th Modernization, an essay by the same name
• calls for democracy: freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, multi-party rule
• was jailed for 18 years for the essay
• his work leads the Democracy Movement
• he is exiled to the US in 1997