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Weeks after his 30th birthday in November 1896, Sun Yatsen, often seen as the founder of modern China, was hard at work planning a new book in English: a comprehensive political treatise on the tyrannical misgovernment of the Chinese nation by the Manchus of the Qing Dynasty. Started then abandoned twice over and destined never to be completed, let alone published, we can only conjecture what title this revolutionary book might have had. The Lost Book of Sun Yatsen and Edwin Collins is the first study of this lost work in either Chinese or Western scholarship.