Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) A medical doctor trained in Hawaii and Hong Kong, Sun led efforts to overthrow the Manchu dynasty. When the dynasty collapsed in 1911. Sun founded China's first modern political party, the Guomindang, and became the first president of the Republic of China. He is revered as the father of modern China." [Fall and Rise of China Guidebook, p. 209]