<P> In 1895, China suffered a serious defeat during the First Sino - Japanese War . There were two types of responses . One group of intellectuals contended that the Manchu Qing government could restore its legitimacy by successfully modernizing . Stressing that overthrowing the Manchu would result in chaos and would lead to China being carved up by imperialists, intellectuals like Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao supported responding with initiatives like the Hundred Days' Reform . In another faction, Sun Yat - sen and others like Zou Rong wanted a revolution to replace the dynastic system with a modern nation - state in the form of a republic . The Hundred Days' reform turned out to be a failure by 1898 . </P> <P> In the second year of the establishment of the Revive China society on 26 October 1895, the group planned and launched the First Guangzhou uprising against the Qing in Guangzhou . Yeung Kui - wan directed the uprising starting from Hong Kong . However, plans were leaked out and more than 70 members, including Lu Haodong, were captured by the Qing government . The uprising was a failure . Sun received financial support mostly from his brother who sold most of his 12,000 acres of ranch and cattle in Hawaii . Additionally, members of his family and relatives of the Sun would take refuge at the home of his brother Sun Mei at Kamaole in Kula, Maui . </P> <P> Sun Yat - sen spent time living in Japan while in exile . He befriended and was financially aided by a democratic revolutionary named Miyazaki Toten . Most Japanese who actively worked with Sun were motivated by a pan-Asian fear of encroaching Western imperialism . While in Japan, Sun also met and befriended Mariano Ponce, then a diplomat of the First Philippine Republic . During the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine--American War, Sun helped Ponce procure weapons salvaged from the Imperial Japanese Army and ship the weapons to the Philippines . By helping the Philippine Republic, Sun hoped that the Filipinos would win their independence so that he could use the archipelago as a staging point of another revolution . However, as the war ended in July 1902, America emerged victorious from a bitter 3 - year war against the Republic . Therefore, the Filipino dream of independence vanished with Sun's hopes of collaborating with the Philippines in his revolution in China . </P> <P> On 22 October 1900, Sun launched the Huizhou uprising to attack Huizhou and provincial authorities in Guangdong . This came five years after the failed Guangzhou uprising . This time, Sun appealed to the triads for help . This uprising was also a failure . Miyazaki, who participated in the revolt with Sun, wrote an account of this revolutionary effort under the title "33 - year dream" (三 十 三 年 之 夢) in 1902 . </P>

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