Sinica Podcast
10.13.11

Sun Yat-sen and the Xinhai Revolution

Kaiser Kuo, David Moser & more
from Sinica Podcast

One hundred years ago this week, local outrage over plans to nationalize provincial railways triggered the Wuchang Uprising, an act of sedition that marked the start of the Xinhai Revolution and the beginning of the end for China’s long-governing...

The NYRB China Archive
05.28.81

His Man in Canton

John K. Fairbank
from New York Review of Books

In the Chinese united front of the mid-1920s, the Soviet agent Borodin has been a protean figure. Bringing Leninist skills, arms, and advisers to Canton, he seemed to be the priceless ingredient that finally catalyzed Sun Yat-sen’...