noun
(also Sun Yat-sen-ism)
The political philosophy of Sun Yat-sen, characterized by the doctrine of the ‘three principles of the people’.
Sun's ‘three principles of the people’ are usually translated as nationalism, democracy, and the ‘people's livelihood’, or the provision of social welfare.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in North-China Herald. From the name of Sun Yat-sen + -ism.
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