Sun Yat-sens: Contested Images of a Political Icon

dc.contributor.advisorGoodman, Bryna
dc.contributor.authorFischer, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-08T15:47:49Z
dc.date.available2020-12-08T15:47:49Z
dc.date.issued2020-12-08
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the afterlives of the Chinese revolutionary icon Sun Yat-sen and their relevant contexts, arguing that these contexts have given rise to different images of the same figure. It serves as a gallery in which these different images are put into conversation with one another, revealing new insights into each. Key to the discussion, Sun is first introduced in a short biography. Then, the thesis moves to his different afterlives: Sun and the fight for his posthumous approval in the Republic of China before 1949; Sun and his usage in Chinese Communist political rhetoric from 1956 through 2016; Sun and his changing image in the ROC-Taiwan, a change that reflects the contentious political environment of an increasingly bentu Taiwan; Sun and two of his images among the overseas Chinese of Hawaii and Penang. Through this exploration, the thesis shows that there is no one Sun Yat-sen.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/25900
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.subjecticonen_US
dc.subjectidentityen_US
dc.subjectnarrativeen_US
dc.subjectnationalismen_US
dc.subjectSun Yat-senen_US
dc.titleSun Yat-sens: Contested Images of a Political Icon
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies Program: Asian Studies
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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