Original sentence: The roots of the incident can be traced to a number of things: along with public outpourings of grief at the recent death of China's Republican hero Sun Yat-sen, the KMT had energized pro-Chinese, anti-imperial and anti-western organizations within major Chinese cities
Edited sentence: Along with public outpourings of grief at the recent death of China's Republican hero Sun Yat-sen, the KMT had energized pro-Chinese, anti-imperial and anti-western organizations within major Chinese cities