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dc.contributor.author	De Angeli Aglaia
dc.title	Sun Yat-sen: a Life Beyond Symbols. A Semiotic Approach to Modernity
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Sun Yat‑sen is the quintessential Chinese historical figure embodying modernity: a revolutionary representative of Chinese national identity still revered on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. This essay takes an interdisciplinary approach to Sun’s emblems of modernity, drawing upon semiotics and the study of material culture. The symbols examined are: Sun’s photographic portrait as Provisional President of the Republic of China; his photographic portrait as Director General of the National Railways; the suit which he created and which was given his name; and his mausoleum in Nanjing, which have all been deployed to perpetuate Sun Yat‑sen’s memory and appropriate it in support of later political agendas.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sinica venetiana
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-10-11
dc.dateAccepted	2022-12-07
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-07-26
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-724-1/sun-yat-sen-a-life-beyond-symbols-a-semiotic-appro/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-723-4/005
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9654
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9042
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-724-1
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-723-4
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Chinese identity
dc.subject	Modernity
dc.subject	Politics mausoleum
dc.subject	Semiotic
dc.subject	Sun Yat‑sen

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Sun Yat-sen: a Life Beyond Symbols. A Semiotic Approach to Modernity

Aglaia De Angeli Queen’s University Belfast, UK

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Sun Yat‑sen is the quintessential Chinese historical figure embodying modernity: a revolutionary representative of Chinese national identity still revered on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. This essay takes an interdisciplinary approach to Sun’s emblems of modernity, drawing upon semiotics and the study of material culture. The symbols examined are: Sun’s photographic portrait as Provisional President of the Republic of China; his photographic portrait as Director General of the National Railways; the suit which he created and which was given his name; and his mausoleum in Nanjing, which have all been deployed to perpetuate Sun Yat‑sen’s memory and appropriate it in support of later political agendas.

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Oct. 11, 2023

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Dec. 7, 2022

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July 26, 2022

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978-88-6969-724-1

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978-88-6969-723-4

Keywords: Politics mausoleum • Semiotic • Chinese identity • Sun Yat‑sen • Modernity

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