By Francis Tsui When Dr. Sun Yat-sen was reminiscing about his student days in Hong Kong during one of his visits to Hong Kong University in 1923, he remarked that years ago he “got the revolutionary ideas in this very place, in the colony of Hong Kong.” Skeptics may question whether Sun Yat-sen really meant what he said or was just saying this to capture and please his audience. Nonetheless, no serious study of Sun’s revolutionary background should overlook or trivialize his sojourn in Hong Kong from 1883 to 1895. Those twelve years were important fomative years in…
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Educating a Revolutionary: Sun Yat-Sen’s Schooling in Hawaii
By Alfred L. Castle Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) was the best known revolutionary proponent of a Chinese republic, both in China and abroad. Born of peasant stock near Canton, a cosmopolitan southern section of China, he was a Westernized Chinese. His Westernization had come from his residency and schooling in Hawaii, his medical studies in Hong Kong, and his organizational activities in the rapidly modernizing Japan. This background served him well as he traveled to gain support for China’s revolution. Sun Yat-sen’s intellectual legacy to those who followed him was fully formulated by the time of the Chinese Revolution…
詳情Sun Yat-Sen in China’s Heroic Tradition
By Loretta Pang In a brief autobiography written in 1896, Sun Yat-sen asserted that he revered the sage kings Tang (reigned 1751-1739 BC?) and Wu (reigned 1121-1116 BC) from China’s distant past. As a young man, he also admired Hong Xiuchuan (AD 1814-1864), leader of the Taiping Rebellion, and identified with him to the extent that the friends with whom he discussed politics jokingly called him by that name. That Sun would single out these individuals as his personal heroes reveals as much about China’s heroic tradition as it does about Sun, who himself would become a heroic…
詳情The “South” in Chinese History
By D. W. Y .Kwok In Chinese cultural awareness, the “South” is a composite term which acquired complexities and layers of meaning as her cultural geography expanded with the movement of history. Some of these meanings and connotations may be noted for the purposes of this brief treatment of the subject. First, north-to-south was from earliest Chinese history the principal orientation of any view of the south. Both cosmology and geography reinforce this view. While the North Polar Star serves as the guiding reference point of cosmic bearing, the Chinese compass has always been called “South-pointing needle (zinanzhen.)…
詳情Sun Yat-Sen and Hawaii
By William M. Zanella When the Wuchang revolt of Oct. 10, 1911, the military launching of the Xinhai Revolution, broke out, Sun Yat-Sen was in America. He learned of these portentous events by reading about them in a newspaper while traveling by train from Denver to Kansas City. That the “Father of the Chinese Revolution” was abroad for one of the most momentous events in modern Chinese history is one of the many ironies of his revolutionary career. Titular leader of a revolution begun in his absence, Sun was destined to be forced to live outside of China…
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1910年3月入境事務所批准,允許孫中山入境 (由太平洋地區國家檔案館提供) “入境事務所1910年3月28日批准,依據孫中山1904年在夏威夷的出生證明,允許其入境。” 1910年孫中山照片 (由太平洋地區國家檔案館提供 孫中山在1910年3月28日乘S….
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47號注銷支票 由林志收藏 (由林文光和Yansheng Ma Lum提供) “1904年2月19日的注銷支票,由希洛第一銀行開出, 希洛中國革命軍出納Tom Wai Kim 開給孫中山的158美元支票。孫中山和興中會的會長何豐批准了此支票。” …
詳情第四次訪問:1896年1月-1896年6月
1896年,923號注冊證書 (夏威夷州立檔案館提供) “孫中山在夏威夷的國籍注冊證書”
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中國商人和旅行者登記許可記錄,孫中山位于第13個。1894年10月13日 (由夏威夷州檔案館提供) 1894年10月13日的中國商人和旅行者登記許可記錄顯示,孫中山的名字排第13位,他的哥哥孫眉“S.Ahmi” 是保證人。 註冊由保證人擔保的特別債券,189…
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孫眉得知孫中山在香港受洗成爲基督徒後,便讓孫中山回到夏威夷。在此之前,孫眉已經將一半財産轉至孫中山名下,希望幼弟能夠協助其生意。但這一次在1884年,孫眉要求孫中山將財産轉回給自己,並且表示與孫中山兩不相幹,孫中山則需要從此自食其力。孫中山的好友芙籣谛文爲他籌集了300美元路費返回中國。孫中山的伊奧…
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