Editing Three Principles of the People (section)

==Canon==
[[File:李鐵夫孫中山12345.jpg| thumb |"Portrait of Sun Yat-sen" (1921) [[Li Tiefu]] Oil on Canvas 93×71.7cm]]
The most definite (canonical) exposition of these principles was a book compiled from notes of speeches that Sun gave near [[Guangzhou]] (taken by a colleague, Huang Changgu, in consultation with Sun), and therefore is open to interpretation by various parties and interest groups (see below) and may not have been as fully explicated as Sun might have wished. Indeed, [[Chiang Kai-shek]] supplied an annex to the Principle of Mínshēng, covering two additional areas of livelihood: education, land, and leisure, and explicitly arguing that Mínshēng was not to be seen as supporting either [[communism]] or [[socialism]].
The French historian of Chinese history, Marie-Claire Bergère's view is that the book is a work of propaganda. Its purpose is to appeal to action rather than to thought. As Sun Yat-sen declared, a principle is not simply an idea; it is "a faith, a power."<ref>{{Cite book  | last1 = Bergère | first1 = Marie-Claire (translated by Janet Lloyd) | title = Sun Yat-sen | year = 1994 | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford | isbn = 0-8047-3170-5 | page = 353 }}</ref>