SUN, Yat-sen.

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Sun Zongli san min zhuyi hebian ("President Sun's 'Three Principles of the People'"). A rare early edition of the official Kuomintang anthology of Sun Yat-Sen's 1924 lectures on the 'Three Principles of the People', which became the defining exposition of his famous political theory following his death the following year. This example was issued by the party's Nanyang headquarters (the branch covering the Chinese south coast and south-east Asia), the sheets likely printed in China.The lectures, delivered between January and August at Guangdong Higher Teacher's College, "were given on Sunday mornings to audiences of two thousand to three thousand people... The audience packed into the hall consisted of government and party officials, students, and 'people from all walks of life.' Sun's listeners were generally attentive, though sometimes distracted by fatigue or hunger (one attendee recalled rushing to the dining hall once Sun concluded his remarks for the day)" (Strand, pp. 255-6). Of the 16 talks, 6 each were devoted to the principles of "nationalism" and "democracy", and 4 expounded on "the people's livelihood." They crystallized his three decades of political theorizing and activism, serving as a last testament that could be readily used and abused by the different political factions that claimed, throughout the 20th century, to be the true custodians of his legacy. As Sun spoke without a prepared text, his talks were transcribed by Zou Lu, a Kuomintang official. After Sun

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