"This is my Hawaii.  Here I was brought up and educated; and it was here that I came to know what modern, civilized governments are like and what they mean." -- Sun Yat-sen, 1910.

Hawaii and its people played an important role in the life of Sun Yat-sen (Sun Wen), the father of modern China and one of the most honored and revered statesmen of the twentieth century.  Dr. Sun spent his teenage years in Hawaii among family and friends   and made a total of six visits to the Islands from 1879 to 1910.  He studied at two of Hawaii's top schools, Iolani and Punahou, and later carried out important revolutionary activities that would lead to the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty, thus ending more than two thousand years of imperial rule in China.  It was in Hawaii that Dr. Sun and a few hundred Chinese first vowed to bring revolution to China.  Here he founded the first revolutionary society, the Hsing Chung Hui (Revive China Society), which developed into the political party directly responsible for the collapse of the Manchus.   This organization was reorganized in 1912 and became the Kuomingtang (Nationalist Party).

Sun Yat-sen in Hawaii is the most comprehensive and detailed account available in English of Dr. Sun's life and revolutionary activities in Hawaii.   The authors have painstakingly culled information from books and articles in English and Chinese and collected letters, military bonds, and other memorabilia of the revolution and put them in historical context.  They visited and identified sites where Dr. Sun's political activities took place and interviewed many family members and descendants of his original group of followers.  Short biographical sketches of some sixty Chinese in Hawaii who supported Dr. Sun's cause financially and politically are included.

Yansheng Ma Lum was born in China and graduated from St. John's University in Shanghai.  She has written many articles on the Chinese in Hawaii for magazines in China and Hong Kong.  Raymond Mun Kong Lum worked as printer and commercial artist and was manager of Lum and Feher, Ltd., Honolulu.  His father, an early supporter of the Chinese revolution, kept letters written and signed by Dr. Sun, many of which are included in this book.

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