@inbook{616d5f025bb34245a372036ebd7c2c0b,
title = "Sun Yat-sen: a life beyond symbols. A semiotic approach to modernity",
abstract = "Sun Yat‐sen is the quintessential Chinese historical figure embodying mo‐ dernity: a revolutionary representative of Chinese national identity still revered on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. This essay takes an interdisciplinary approach to Sun{\textquoteright}s emblems of modernity, drawing upon semiotics and the study of material culture. The symbols examined are: Sun{\textquoteright}s photographic portrait as Provisional President of the Re‐ public 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{\textquoteright}s memory and appropriate it in support of later political agendas.",
keywords = "China, Sun Yatsen, modernity, semiotics, Chinese identity, Politics, mausoleum",
author = "{De Angeli}, Aglaia",
year = "2023",
month = oct,
day = "11",
doi = "10.30687/978-88-6969-723-4/005",
language = "English",
isbn = "9788869697241",
series = "Sinica Venetiana",
publisher = "Edizioni Ca' Foscari",
pages = "77--96",
editor = "{De Giorgi}, Laura and Sofia Graziani",
booktitle = "The historian{\textquoteright}s gaze: essays on modern and contemporary China in honour of Guido Samarani",
address = "Italy",
}