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- Title
ÇİN'DE İMPARATORLUKTAN CUMHURİYETE GEÇİŞTE SUN YATSEN VE DEVRİM DÜŞÜNCESİ.
- Authors
BALCI, Tuğba Gökçe
- Abstract
China's last empire, the Qing Dynasty, was founded by Manchus of steppe descent. Conditions for the dynasty, which consolidated its power and expanded its territory in these lands, where the imperial system had dominated for thousands of years, began to deteriorate from the 19th century. As a result of the increase in the population, the deterioration of the economic situation, and the increasing impoverishment of the people, unrest broke out in the country. Furthermore, China has become the new target of the self-modernizing West. Sun Yatsen, who was born in 1866 and has the title of 'first president' of China, was brought up in this miserable era of the state. Sun Yatsen, who went to Hawaii at the age of 13, had a Western curriculum and never broke away from Chinese politics, history, and culture. Although he initially chose to benefit from Western ideas while trying to realize his revolution, with the influence of the education he received, he continued on his way by taking inspiration from Chinese history and philosophy in his later years. He was especially influenced by the school of thought of Confucius, the great philosopher of China, and made efforts to develop his ideas to use them in solving current problems. Inspired by the ideas of neo-confucian scholar Wang Yang-ming, Sun Yatsen tried to build his revolution on China's unique historical and philosophical heritage. His ideas were not a simple repetition of the Confucian school but a contemporary successor. In this way, Sun Yatsen carried the historical and philosophical legacy he inherited from his ancestors to another dimension, while carrying out a republican revolution in Chinese lands that had not even been dreamed of until then.
- Publication
Academic Journal of Philosophy / Felsefi Düşün, 2023, Issue 21, p155
- ISSN
2148-0958
- Publication type
Article