Sun Yat Sen's Supporters and the Origins of the Revolution in Honolulu

http://marvelsofchina. blogspot.com/2016/08/coming- up-next-douglas-chong-dr-sun- yat.html

Jeffrey Bingham Mead

Host, Marvels of China: Pathways to the Pacific Rim

Douglas Chong is a Chinese cultural historian, consultant and director of the Hawaii Chinese History Center in the heart of Honolulu’s Chinatown where I caught up with him recently.

As the world pauses in 2016 to observe the 150th anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s birth we wanted to hear from someone who could illuminate us about Sun’s formative years in Hawaii.

As the leader of China's 1911 revolution, Sun Yat-sen inspired and organized a movement that overthrew the Qing Dynasty that reigned over China for nearly three hundred years.