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Sun Yatsen, Robert Wilcox and Their Failed Revolutions, Honolulu and Canton 1895: Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer book cover

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Sun Yatsen, Robert Wilcox and Their Failed Revolutions, Honolulu and Canton 1895 Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer

By Patrick Anderson Copyright 2021
522 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

522 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

522 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer is the radical, explosive retelling of the first decade of the 'Father of Modern China' Dr Sun Yatsen’s globally shaped formation as a professional revolutionist, and of the impact of the adult Sun’s revolutionary relationship with Hawaiʻi and with his varied communities of supporters there during its own most turbulent political decade, the 1890s, years in... Read more

Part One

Introduction

1. Sun Yatsen: Evolution of a Professional Revolutionist

Part Two

2. The Five-Year Lifecycle of the Hawaiian Republic, 1893 to 1898

3. Hawai'i Politics and the Hawaiian-Chinese Huaqiao Struggle for Political Recognition, circa 1887 to 1898

4. Sun Yatsen in Honolulu: 1894–1895 and 1895–1896

5. Robert Wilcox, Hawai'i's Garibaldi

6. E. C. Crick, "The Man with Many Professions"

7. A Tale of Two Revolutionary Failures: Honolulu and Canton, 1895

Part Three

8. Sun Yatsen and the Hawaiian Star

Appendix 1: Sun Yatsen’s Unknown Fifth Visit to Hawaiʻi, 18 April to 5 June 1901

Appendix 2: Sun Yatsen, Hawaiian Citizen?: A Re-Investigation of the Mystery of SunYatsen's Hawaiian Birth Certificate

Appendix 3: Constitutions and Voting Rights in Hawaiʻi during Sun Yatsen’s Seven Visits, 1879–1910

Appendix 4: Did Robert Wilcox Have Two Chinese Nephews?
              
Appendix 5: (Not Necessarily) Sun Yatsen’s Hawaiʻi?

Biography

Patrick Anderson works for Queen Mary, University of London. He lectured at universities in Beijing and Guangzhou (Canton) in mainland China in the 1990s.

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