Sun Yat-sen Hawaii Foundation

The Honolulu City Council and the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Hawaii Foundation celebrates 2011 as the Year of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in Hawaii

March 24, 2011 admin Featured

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Honolulu, Hawaii -- 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen’srevolution leading to the birth of modern China. In recognition of the influence that Hawaii and its people had on Dr. Sun and his contributions to Hawaii, the Honolulu City Council recently adopted a...

Dr. Sun Yat-sen Hawaii Foundation donated Sun Yat-sen statue at the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park

March 24, 2011 admin Featured

“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.” - Dr. Sun Yat-sen In 1879, at the age of thirteen, Sun Yat-sen came to Hawaii from Zhongshan...

Modern China was born here (Honolulu Advertiser)

March 24, 2011 admin Featured

Hawai'i tourism is due to benefit from the appeal of a new wrinkle in "Washington Slept Here." However, it's not the father of our country who slept in Hawai'i but the father of modern China, Sun Yat-Sen. The first Chinese visitor to see where Sun Yat-Sen hung his hat...

Rethinking the Chinese Revolution: 1911 in Global Perspective

March 19, 2011 admin Others

A Conference in Commemoration of the 1911 Revolution(An AAS-endorsed pre-conference of the 2011 AAS-IACS annual convention) University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, HonoluluMarch 28–30, 2011Organized by the Center for Chinese Studies, with major support from the Confucius Institute at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa In...

Announcement of free film screening

March 19, 2011 admin Featured

In conjunction with “Rethinking the Chinese Revolution: 1911 in Global Perspective: A Conference in Commemoration of the 1911 Revolution", a public conference being sponsored by Center for Chinese Studies, with major support from the Confucius Institute at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, March 28–30, 2011. (about which more later),...