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The Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park is in Chinatown, Honolulu. [178] On the island of Maui, the little Sun Yat-sen Park at Kamaole is near where his older brother had a ranch on the slopes of Haleakala in the Kula region. [13] [14] [15] [46] In Los Angeles, there is a seated statue of him in Central Plaza. [179]
In 1925 the government of the Republic of China hung up a portrait of Chinese statesman Sun Yat-sen at Tiananmen gate, after his death in March that year. After the victory over Japan in 1945 the portrait of Sun Yat-sen was replaced with a portrait of the leader of the Republic, Chiang Kai-shek.
Henry Sleeper Harper (11 March 1864 – 1 March 1944) was an American businessman. He was an incorporator of Harper & Brothers when the firm became a corporation in 1896. . Harper is remembered as a passenger on the RMS Titanic when it sank on April 15, 1912, [1] particularly because his Pekingese called Sun Yat-sen was one of three dogs to survive the sinking of the Titanic, [2] and also for ...
The one standing was Kwan King-leung. Photo taken circa 1888. [1] Wax statues of the Four Bandits at the Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum. The Four Bandits, Four Outlaws or Four Desperados (Chinese: 四大寇) was a nickname given to a 19th-century group of four young revolutionaries: Sun Yat-sen, Yeung Hok-ling, Chan Siu-bak and Yau Lit.
Upon reaching Beijing, Chiang paid homage to Sun Yat-sen and had his body moved to the new capital of Nanjing to be enshrined in a mausoleum, the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum. Chiang and Feng Yuxiang in 1928. In the West and in the Soviet Union, Chiang Kai-shek was known as the "Red General". [39]
Lu Muzhen (middle) with Sun Yat-sen's Japanese friends in 1931. After the divorce, she returned to Macau via Penang and lived in Macau ever since. [12] When Sun Yat-sen died in 1925, although she was not invited to the official funeral, she mourned him with traditional Chinese funeral services at her home. [2]
He was best known as the baptizer of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the first president and founding father of the Republic of China. Rev. Hager was the founder, and was regarded as the first Minister-in-charge, of the China Congregational Church in Hong Kong. Picture of the baptism record of Dr. Sun Yat-sen taken in the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Museum, Hong Kong.
In the coffin contained four books with symbolic meaning to Chiang: a King James Version Bible, which he read daily and symbolised his Methodist faith; a book containing notes from Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People philosophy of which he wrote two chapters; an anthology of Tang dynasty poems; and a book titled "Streams in the Desert ...