Why did Sun Yat-sen live in exile after the Guangzhou uprising?

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Sun Yat-sen went into exile following the failure of his 1895 plot to capture Guangzhou, the capital of his native province. This failed uprising marked the beginning of a 16-year period during which he lived abroad, primarily to escape the Manchu dynasty and to organize further revolutionary activities from safer bases of operation, such as Japan.123