Lai Tse-han of the Institute of Social Sciences at the Academia Sinica believes, on the other hand, that at the end of the Ching dynasty 70 % of the rural dwellers in China could be considered poor peasants, "so to emphasize Dr. Sun's rural origins but to also say that he undertook a petty bourgeois revolution (being a doctor), and that he was not successful--there is a contradiction here!"
中央研究院社科所賴澤涵則認為，滿清末年，中國農民百分之七十都是貧農，「強調國父貧農出身，卻又因為他當過醫生說他從事的是小資產階級革命，而且並未成功，這其中似有矛盾在！」