| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.3

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Marie-Claire Bergére. Sun Yat-sen. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1998. Pp. ix, 480. $49.50.

This is a most welcome book, one that everyone interested in modern China has wanted for a long while. It is a readable, balanced, and judicious study of the most important man in modern Chinese history, the man recognized by all Chinese, whatever their political persuasion, as the Father of the Nation: Sun Yat-sen. Marie-Claire Bergére's biography is the most thorough book about Sun in a Western language, and it is so minutely researched that it goes far beyond any existing study. 1

Sun is not an easy subject for biographers. His actual achievements, in terms of deeds, were limited; he had only a few weeks in political office as president of China. Much of his career consisted of setbacks and defeats. His aims so far outran his reach that he was an easy target for disparagement and was seldom taken seriously by foreign commentators. Bergére does not make this mistake. She brings together all the myriad and often quirky details of Sun's life and then transcends them. . . .

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