China s Democracy And Human Right Essay - 953 Words

10th October 1911, the smoke of gunpowder enveloped the Wuhan City and the water in Yangtze River was bloodied red. The Wuchang Uprising broken up. Just in two months next to the revolution, fifteen Chinese provinces declared their independence and prepare to build a new republic government. 1st January 1912, the first Asian presidential system country- Republic of China was built in Nanjing then the emperor of Manchuria abdicated at end of this year. From this year, four thousand years’ Chinese absolute monarchy was ruined meanwhile two thousand years sacred and inviolable emperor system was buried. All future generations will not forget the man who devoted his whole life to China’s democracy and human right. He is the father of Republic of China- Sun yat-sen. Dr. Sun was born in 1866 and died in 1925 and he was not born in a wealthy family. His parents are docile peasants like most of the emperor’s people but Dr. Sun’s old brother worked in a pasture in San Francisco and he became a rich rancher with 6000 acres land later. Dr. Sun went to Honolulu and Hawaii for a studied tour with the financial aid of his old brother from 1878 to 1883. During that time, Dr. Sun hadn’t found his ambitious but just used to idled his time away. In final, he got his medical degree in British Hong Kong in 1892 then he began to doctor in Portuguese Macao. At that time, Honk Kong and Macao as western colonies, peoples’ views on politics were not controlled by Manchuria Empire. 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