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:: FAQ > Historical Figures > Sun Yat-Sen (1866 ~ 1925) ::   Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, also known as Sun Chung-Shan and Sun Wen, was born on November 12, 1866, in a coastal village of Hsiangshan County, Kwangtung Province. In his early years of adulthood, Sun practiced medicine. Later on, indignant at the weakness and corruption of the Imperial Manchu government and at foreign encroachment, which had put China in grave danger, Sun gave up his medical career and devoted himself to the cause of overthrowing the Manchu dynasty and establishing a republic by starting a revolutionary crusade. In October 1894, together with a group of overseas Chinese youths, Sun set up his first volutionary organization, the Hsing-chung Hui (Society for Regenerating China), in Honolulu, Hawaii, to embark on his revolutionary career. In August 1905, he formulated the Three Principles of the People--nationalism, democracy, and social well-being, which he believed, were the guidelines for building a modern China. Over the next 16 years, Sun and his followers launched ten armed attempts to topple the corrupted Manchu government. The last stroke came on October 10, 1911, when Sun's supporters took over Wuchang, the capital of Hupei Province, and accordingly encouraged people all over the country to rise against the imperial government, thus putting an end to the Chinese monarchy which had lasted for about five millennia. On December 25, 1911, Sun was elected provisional president of the new republic in Nanking by a revolutionary alliance, which controlled 16 of the country's 22 provinces. He was inaugurated on January 1, 1912, the birthday of the Republic of China-Asia's first republic. Upon assuming office Sun requested all provinces to send delegates to Nanking, capital of the nation, to establish a provisional senate. Accordingly, they enacted an Outline for the Organization of a Provisional Government and a Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China as the fundamental nation-building laws. In 1919 Sun completed his able work titled Plans for National Reconstruction which was designed to build a peaceful, free and prosperous China in accordance with the Three Principles of the People. In 1921 Sun was elected president of the Republic of China. In 1923 he declared that the Three Principles of the People was the foundation of the nation and the Five-Power Constitution was the basis of the governmental system. During the first two decades of the republic, China had been fractured by rival warlords to the extent that no one authority was able to subordinate all warlords and create a unified and centralized political structure. Having witnessed the collapse of the fledging central government he had worked so hard to create, Sun went south to his home province of Kwangtung where he established a military government in 1917. On November 10, 1924, he issued a manifesto calling for the convocation of a National Convention and the abolition of unequal treaties. Although he was ill at that time, two days later Sun, as head of the southern government, left Canton for Peking to hold talks with the northern regional leaders on the unification of China by peaceful means. Unfortunately, Sun died of liver cancer on March 12, 1925, at the age of 60 in Peking (Beijing). Sun Yat-Sen (1866 ~ 1925) appears on the following banknote(s): TWD P1935 1946 1 Yuan TWD P1936 1946 5 Yuan TWD P1937 1946 10 Yuan TWD P1938 1946 50 Yuan TWD P1939 1946 100 Yuan TWD P1940 1946 500 Yuan TWD P1941 1947 100 Yuan TWD P1942 1948 1000 Yuan TWD P1943 1948 1000 Yuan TWD P1944 1948 10000 Yuan TWD P1945 1949 10000 Yuan TWD P1945A 1949 100000 Yuan TWD P1948 1949 10 Cents TWD P1949 1949 50 Cents TWD P1951 1949 1 Yuan TWD P1950 1949 1 Yuan TWD P1952 1949 5 Yuan TWD P1953 1949 5 Yuan TWD P1954 1949 10 Yuan TWD P1955 1949 10 Yuan TWD P1956 1949 100 Yuan TWD P1957 1949 100 Yuan TWD P1964 1954 1 Yuan TWD P1966 1954 1 Yuan TWD P1967 1954 10 Yuan TWD P1968 1955 5 Yuan TWD P1969 1960 10 Yuan TWD P1970 1960 10 Yuan TWD P1971 1961 1 Yuan TWD P1972 1961 5 Yuan TWD P1973 1961 5 Yuan TWD P1974 1961 50 Yuan TWD P1975 1961 100 Yuan TWD P1976 1964 50 Yuan TWD P1977 1964 100 Yuan TWD P1978 1969 5 Yuan TWD P1979 1969 10 Yuan TWD P1980 1970 50 Yuan TWD P1981 1970 100 Yuan TWD P1984 1976 10 Yuan TWD P1982 1972 50 Yuan TWD P1983 1972 100 Yuan TWD P1989 1987 100 Yuan TWD P1991 2000 100 Yuan Off-Shore PR103 1950 10 Cents Off-Shore PR104 1950 50 Cents Off-Shore PR102A 1949 1 Yuan Off-Shore PR102 1949 1 Yuan Off-Shore PR101 1949 1 Yuan Off-Shore PR102B 1949 5 Yuan Off-Shore PR108 1955 5 Yuan Off-Shore PR109 1966 5 Yuan Off-Shore PR105 1950 10 Yuan Off-Shore PR106 1950 10 Yuan Off-Shore PR107 1951 50 Yuan Off-Shore PR110 1969 10 Yuan Off-Shore PR111 1969 50 Yuan Off-Shore PR112 1972 100 Yuan Off-Shore PR112A 1976 10 Yuan Off-Shore PR119 1954 1 Yuan Off-Shore PR120 1954 1 Yuan Off-Shore PR121 1955 5 Yuan Off-Shore PR116 1950 10 Yuan Off-Shore PR117 1950 10 Yuan Off-Shore PR118 1951 50 Yuan Off-Shore PR122 1969 10 Yuan Off-Shore PR123 1969 50 Yuan Off-Shore PR124 1972 100 Yuan Off-Shore PR125 1976 10 Yuan Off-Shore PR141 1950 10 Cents Off-Shore PR142 1950 50 Cents Off-Shore PR140 1949 1 Yuan Off-Shore PR143 1950 10 Yuan Confucius (551 ~ 479 BC) Sun Yat-Sen (1866 ~ 1925) Zhu De (1886 ~ 1976) Chiang Kai-Shek (1887 ~ 1975) Mao Tse-Tung (1893 ~ 1976) Zhou En-Lai (1898 ~ 1976) Liu Shao-Qi (1898 ~ 1969)