[SeekAndFind]

Symbolizing America’s support, the U.S. Post Office Department twice depicted Sun Yat-sen on postage stamps.

In 1904, Sun sailed to New York from Hawaii. While in New York, the San Francisco Chinese community funded and promoted a pamphlet he wrote, entitled “The True Solution of the Chinese Problem.” American influence on Sun was growing because he saw America as a model of success. Sun admired the political philosophy of President Lincoln for a democratic government. He called this the “Three Principles of The People” and developed his own version for China: minzu (national feelings of the people,) minquan (rights of the people,) and minsheng (the people’s livelihood.)

[Steely Tom]

ping for later

[Kevmo]

Sun’s elder brother concealed the fact that Yat-sen was an American. His family would claim that he was born in China because a Chinese identity was crucial to his mission for China’s future but contemporaneous records show that he was an American citizen by birth.
***So he was a Chinese Reverse Birther

[PGR88]

China might have have much more stability in the first half of the 20th century if it had been able to work-out a constitutional monarchy. Probably a very difficult proposition given the absolutist control held by the Imperial system.

[shadowlands1960]

He lived briefly in Marysville CA while he was in exile. We had a large Chinese community here in those days...

[Chode]

i still have ~dozen SY-S silver dollars dad brought home from the war

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[Reno89519]

And his and his family corruption is American as well?

[GreenLanternCorps]

Wikipedia has him listed as being born in 1866 in China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen

If he was actually born in the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1866, his citizenship would be complicated by Hawaiian citizenship law and the US annexation of the Republic of Hawaii in 1898 (and terms in which Hawaiians became Americans).

[Wuli]

A lot of good history. Thanks for the post. Now a permanent bookmark in my research folder.

[Lurkinanloomin]

He has an Hawaiian birth certificate, too.

[PeterPrinciple]

which emphasized discipline, purifying the character, and learning from the West.

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Looks more like some from column a, column b and c.

[sauropod]

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[Clemenza]

But was he as corrupt as Cash my check, er, Chang Kai Shek?

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

What a crap article. He was president for two periods like jesus was around for two periods...before the resurrection and after. Not a word that he changed from china to tawain, that the evil commies took control of the mainland! WTF. More fake crap from American Thinker. Believe No One, not our side or any other, but Christ. Especially not either this pope.

[untenured]

Sun was not born in Hawaii, although he spent much of his later childhood there and had become fluent in English by the time he went back to China.

But he was a socialist through and through. The army he headed, based near British Hong Kong (whose openness and vitality he and others benefited from) helped overthrow the last emperor, a child, but he was out of office within months and China fell into graft and civil war, and well after he died finally into the catastrophe of Maoism.

He was a naive fool, obsessed with the idea that foreigners and foreign capital, having brought technology and the ideas of human rights, women’s rights more generally, the scientific method, industrialization and social change to a society, though with a very long civilization magnificent in some ways compared to others, that had never known any of these things.

Like the left everywhere, he took the present for granted and wanted to hammer it into something better, never giving any though to how it came to be.

[ckilmer]

Is there a sun yat sen birth certificate?