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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]
Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum: Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) was a revolutionary leader and statesman known as the "Father of Modern China." He played a pivotal role in overthrowing the Qing Dynasty and establishing the Republic of China in 1912. Sun was the founder of the Kuomintang and a key proponent of the "Three Principles of the People". Chiang Kai-shek
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]
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.
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 ...
Nora Sun (Chinese: 孫穗芬; August 6, 1937 – January 29, 2011) was a Chinese-American diplomat, businesswoman, and daughter of Sun Fo with Shanghai property developer Rosa Lam/Lan Yi, and granddaughter of Republic of China founder Sun Yat-sen.
Sun Fo (left) and Sun Yat-sen in 1911 Former residence of Sun Fo in Nanjing.. Sun was born in Xiangshan (now Zhongshan), Guangdong, China.He studied abroad, graduated in 1911 from Saint Louis College (now Saint Louis School, K-12, Honolulu, Hawaii), earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley in 1916 and a Master of Science from Columbia University in 1917.
On April 9, after a short ceremony at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital where a wreath was laid by President Yen Chia-kan, the bronze coffin with Chiang Kai-shek's body was carried by ten of his personal bodyguards onto a flower-covered truck which was then driven to the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall.