Sun Yat-sen’s Contribution to Early Stages of Chinese Modernization

Sun Yat-sen was a distinguished patriot, a pioneering figure in China’s democratic movement, the creator of the Republic of China and the Kuomintang, and the formulator of the “Three People’s Principles.” In the context of China’s early modernization during the Republic of China, the 1911 Revolution dismantled the monarchy and instituted a bourgeois republic, thereby transferring the leadership of early modernization to the modern bourgeoisie and facilitating the transition to modern civilization. It popularized the concept of a democratic republic and established an institutional framework for China’s initial modernization. Sun Yat- sen’s vision for nation-building and his modernization philosophy significantly contributed to China’s early modernization, particularly through the New Three People’s Principles and the policies of collaboration with Russia, the Communist Party, and the labor classes and peasants, which exhibited a socialist inclination. Third, it provided some experience for the Communist Party of China to explore the road of China’s modernization.