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Father of China Sun Yat-sen 孫逸仙 pinyin: Sūn Yìxiān; Cantonese Yale: Syùn Yaht-sìn November 12, 1866 - March 12, 1925 was a Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman, the founder of the Kuomintang and the first provisional president of the Republic of China. In the 1930s he was posthumously given the title Father of the Nation 國父 Guófù , which is currently used in Taiwan. In the mainland, he is commonly referred to as the forthgoer 革命的先行者 and is mentioned by name in the preamble to the Constitution of the Peoples Republic of China. He developed a political philosophy known as the Three Principles of the People. Names Full name: Sun Wen 孫文 Sūn Wén Family name: Sun 孫 Sūn Given name: Wen 文 Wén Courtesy names: * Yixian 逸仙 Yìxīan * Deming 德明 Démíng Sobriquets: * Rixin 日新 Rìxīn * Nakayama Shou 中山樵 a name used in Japan while in exile; meaning The Woodcutter of the Middle Mountain; Zhōngshān Qiáo Known most commonly in China as: Sun Zhongshan 孫中山 Sūn Zhōngshān * In the Republic of China, his name is officially written as National Father space Mr. Sun Zhongshan 國父　孫中山先生 , where the one-character space is a traditional homage symbol. Biography He was born to a peasant family in Cuiheng Village, Xiangshan County 香山县 of Guangdong Province, in southern China. The county has been renamed Zhongshan in his honor. At age 13 he went to live with an older brother, who had immigrated there as a laborer and become a prosperous merchant, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Sun studied at the Iolani School in Honolulu 1879-1882 and ultimately earned a medical degree in the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese 1892 , of which he was one of the first two graduates. He subsequently practiced medicine in that city. His years in the west induced in him a dissatisfaction with the Qing government of China and he began his political career by attempting to organize reform groups of Chinese exiles in Hong Kong. In October 1894 he founded the Xing Zhong Society t