Question

The leader who emerged in the early 1900s to lead the Chinese people as the nation’s first president _____.

Answer 1

Sun Yat-sen emerged in 1911 to lead the Chinese people as the nation's first president and is now considered father of the modern China.He worked on 3 principles:

1. Nationalism
2. Democracy and
3. Livelihood.

So we can say that choice no

(3) favoured Western ideas of government.

is the best choice.When Sun Yat-sen started a revolutionary against monarchy system of China,he went to Japan to form an army and took financial help from Chinese people in American and Japan.He said that monarchy of China is corrupt and is unable to defeat foreign attacks by Japan ,England etc and so they must unite in the form of a revolutionary to defeat Monarchy and unite whole of China which was not the case earlier.There were many warlords and monarchies were there in China.