Sun Yat-sen
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Sun Yat-sen, better known in China as Sūn Zhōngshān, was a Chinese revolutionary statesman, physician, and political philosopher who served as the first provisional president of the Republic of China and the first leader of the Kuomintang. He is called the "Father of the Nation" in the present-day Republic of China (Taiwan) and the "Forerunner of the Revolution" in the People's Republic of China for his instrumental role in the overthrowing of the Qing dynasty during the 1911 Revolution. Sun is unique among 20th-century Chinese leaders for being widely revered by both the Communist Party in Mainland China and the Kuomintang in Taiwan.
Sun (second from left) and his friends the Four Bandits: Yeung Hok-ling (left), Chan Siu-bak (middle), Yau Lit (right), and Guan Jingliang (關景良, standing) at the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, circa 1888
Plaque in London marking the site of a house at 4 Warwick Court, WC1, in which Sun Yat-sen lived in exile
Interior of the Wan Qing Yuan featuring Sun's items and photos
Overseas Chinese
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Overseas Chinese people are those of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese. Overall China has low precent of population living overseas.
Main sources of Chinese migration from the 19th century to 1949.
Chinese women and children in Brunei, c. 1945.
1958 old photograph of Indonesian-Chinese of Gu (古) surname, first until third generations
1967 photo of Indonesian-Chinese family from Hubei ancestry, the second and third generations.