   tai chi-tao (; january 6, 1891 â february 21, 1949) was a chinese journalist, an early kuomintang member, and the first head of the examination yuan of the republic of china. he is often referred to as dai chuanxian (æ´å³è³¢; wadeâgiles: tai ch'uan-hsien) or by his other courtesy name, dai xuantang (æ´é¸å ; wadeâgiles: tai hsÃ¼an-t'ang). ==early life and education== tai was born dai liangbi (æ´è¯å¼¼; wadeâgiles: tai liang-pi) in guanghan, sichuan to a family of potters. he went to japan in 1905 to study in a normal school and entered nihon university's law program in 1907. he graduated and returned to china in 1909. ==writings== tai started to write for the shanghaiese china foreign daily (ä¸­å¤æ¥å ±) and tianduo newspaper (å¤©é¸å ±) at 19. at this time, his sobriquet for himself was dai tianchou (å¤©ä»), or heaven-revenge dai, to signify his dissatisfaction for the qing empire. the manchus threatened him with imprisonment for his writings, so in 1911 he fled to japan, and then to penang, where he joined tongmenghui (åçæ) and wrote for its guanghua newspaper (åè¯å ±). later that year, he returned to shanghai after the wuchang uprising and founded the democracy newspaper (æ°æ¬å ±). ==political career== tai's fluency in japanese, unusual for a chinese young man, attracted the attention of sun yat-sen. he became sun's translator and then his confidential secretary. after the kuomintang failed to overthrow yuan shikai, he went to tokyo to join the chinese revolutionary party in 1914. he attended the first national congress of the chinese kuomintang in 1924, where he was elected a member of the central executive committee, then later a member of the standing committee, and the minister of propaganda. soon after sun's death in 1925, he published a controversial book that reinterpreted sun's legacy. he claimed sun derived his ideology chiefly from confucianism instead of western philosophies and that sun was a traditionalist. this was praised by the kmt's right-wing but condemned by leftists and communists. after the right's triumph, tai's interpretation became the dominant one within the kmt. in 1926, he served as principal of the sun yat-sen university, and the chief of poli
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