Homer Lea, Sun Yat-sen, and the Chinese Revolution
Author : Eugene Anschel
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Eugene Anschel
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Lawrence M. Kaplan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813140013
“The unlikely story of Lea’s attempts to train a cadre of soldiers in American Chinatowns who would return to their homeland to make it a modern world power.” —Pacific Historical Review As a five-feet-three-inch hunchback who weighed about 100 pounds, Homer Lea (1876–1912), was an unlikely candidate for life on the battlefield, yet he became a world-renowned military hero. Homer Lea: American Soldier of Fortune paints a revealing portrait of a diminutive yet determined man who never earned his valor on the field of battle, but left an indelible mark on his times. Lawrence M. Kaplan draws from extensive research to illuminate the life of a “man of mystery,” while also yielding a clearer understanding of the early twentieth-century Chinese underground reform and revolutionary movements. Lea’s career began in the inner circles of a powerful Chinese movement in San Francisco that led him to a generalship during the Boxer Rebellion. Fixated with commanding his own Chinese army, Lea’s inflated aspirations were almost always dashed by reality. Although he never achieved the leadership role for which he strived, he became a trusted advisor to revolutionary leader Dr. Sun Yat-sen during the 1911 revolution that overthrew the Manchu Dynasty. As an author, Lea garnered fame for two books on geopolitics: The Valor of Ignorance, which examined weaknesses in the American defenses and included dire warnings of an impending Japanese-American war, and The Day of the Saxon, which predicted the decline of the British Empire. More than a character study, this biography provides insight into the establishment and execution of underground reform and revolutionary movements within US immigrant communities and in southern China, as well as early twentieth-century geopolitical thought.
Author : Homer Lea
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
One of the foremost strategists of the American Army in the first decade of the twentieth century warns of the great danger of militarized Japan and forcasts -- 44 years before it actually happened -- the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Arnulf K. Esterer
Publisher : Julian Messner
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A biography of the Chinese leader who dedicated his life to abolishing the Manchu dynasty and uniting China.
Author : Homer Lea
Publisher : New York ; London : Harper & brothers
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Anglo-Saxon race
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Author : Lyon Sharman
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 1968
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Thomas W. Ganschow
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 1971
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 1953
Category : China
ISBN :
The story of Sun Yat-sen's crusade to establish the People's Republic of China, from the time he finished college to his death.
Author : James Cantlie
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1912
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Hsu-Hsin Chang
Publisher :
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
Bibliography of Sun Yat-Sen in China's Republican Revolution, 1885-1925, Second Edition provides the most up-to-date and complete bibliography on the life and revolutionary career of Sun Yat-sen, including newly discovered works and correspondence. he materials include: bibliographical and reference works, the writings of Sun Yat-sen, articles, papers and symposia, translated works, documentary collections, doctoral dissertations, masters theses, selected newspaper and magazine accounts, and films and videotapes. Essential aquisition for libraries, research institutes, archives and those studying topics pertaining to Sun Yat-Sen and the late Qing and early Republican periods in China.