Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Like many Chinese, Sun Yat-sen used different names at different points in his life and he is known in China under several of them. Names are not taken lightly in Chinese culture. This reverence goes as far back as Confucius and his insistence on "rectification of names." In addition to the names and aliases listed below, Sun Yat-sen also used other aliases while he was a revolutionary in exile. According to one study, he used as many as thirty different names.