Sun Yat-sen ’ s death in Nanjing in 1925 triggered mourning in both mainland China and Japanese-controlled Taiwan. Zhang Wojun, a Taiwanese writer much influenced by the May Fourth Movement, wrote:
1925 年，中山先生病逝南京，不僅大陸全民哀悼，日治下的台灣同樣「如喪考妣」，受五四「白話文運動」影響甚深的台灣作家張我軍的弔辭寫著：