This leader clashed with the Beiyang Government despite ceding power to their leader, Yuan Shikai.
This leader briefly employed the American soldier Homer Lea as chief of staff. This leader was forced to flee a territory for the United States after plotting with allies at the Penang conference. A manifesto issued by this leader and Adolf Joffe pledged Soviet support for this leader's country and the cooperation of the local (*) Communist Party. The qualities of nationalism, democracy, and livelihood were espoused by this leader's Three Principles of the People. This leader clashed with the Beiyang Government despite ceding power to their leader, Yuan Shikai. This man's successor within his party lost a civil war and fled to Taiwan. For 10 points, name this early leader of the Republic of China who founded the Kuomintang.
This leader briefly employed the American soldier Homer Lea as chief of staff.
Sun Yat-sen [or Sun Deming; or Sun Wen; or Sun Dixiang; or Sun Rixin; or Nakayama Sho; or Sun Zhong-shan] 