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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]
The party was initially founded on 23 August 1912, by Sun Yat-sen but dissolved in November 1913. It reformed on October 10, 1919, again led by Sun Yat-sen, and became the ruling party in China. After Sun's death, the party was dominated from 1927 to 1975 by Chiang Kai-shek.
Following the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925, the Central Executive Committee became the collective leadership of the Kuomintang. On 19 May 1926, the Central Executive Committee resolved to establish chairmanship. In March 1927, the collective leadership of the committee was revived, the chairmanship was thus abolished until 7 December 1935.
Tōten Miyazaki and his siblings are known for supporting Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary movement. After the failure of his first revolution in 1895, Sun Yat-sen went into exile in America and England, before arriving to Japan in 1897. To protect Sun from the authorities, Tōten invited him to the Miyazaki home, where he stayed for 10 days to 2 weeks.
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.
The Kuomintang's constitution designated Sun Yat-sen as party president. After his death, the Kuomintang opted to keep that language in its constitution to honor his memory forever. The party has since been headed by a director-general (1927–1975) and a chairman (since 1975), positions which officially discharge the functions of the president.
When Sun Yat-sen made China a republic in 1911–1912 he made Lea, whose already frail health had been further tried by several bouts of illness, a full general and his chief of staff. A stroke several months later, however, forced Lea to give up these positions and retire to the United States, where he died at age 35 in Ocean Park, California.
Lu Muzhen (30 July 1867 – 7 September 1952) was the first wife of Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen.A traditional Chinese housewife, she had two daughters, Wan and Yan, and one son, Fo, with his husband.