Sun Yat Sen Accomplishments

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Sun Yat-Sen Sun Yat-Sen was a prominent revolutionary political figure in China during the nineteenth century. He was born on November 12, 1866 and died on March 12, 1925 at the age of 58. Although he was one of the few in his class to graduate from medical school, he did not take on the occupation as a doctor. Instead, he became a devoted and passionate political activist and for short period of time, he even became China’s Head of State.
Like everyone else’s life, Sun Yat-Sen’s life was met with both accomplishments and failures. For example, he inspired and organized the movement that overthrew the Manchu dynasty in 1911. This revolution of 1911 marked not only the end of the corrupt Qing dynasty, which was making China go backwards in

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