Sun Yat-sen, the Chinese revolutionary from Hawaii He carried a fraudulent Hawaiian Kingdom birth certificate that allowed him to evade Chinese imperial police.

I drove past the #SunYatSen statue in Honolulu today and it got me thinking about his cool story

#china #chineserevolution #chinesehistory #hawaiianhistory

Man in #China burns down a textile factory over $100 in #UnpaidWages who told them "we're all gonna die anyway"?

Then hailed a #hero while some think the start of a #ChineseRevolution and want to #crowdfund his legal case?

People claim 'social injustice'? 🤷‍♂️

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Republican soldiers marching, with a five-coloured flag, Beijing, 1912

The five-coloured flag (Five Races Under One Union).

Cooper, William
WC01-239
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#nationalism #Chinesehistory #revolution #Chineserevolution #Chinesenation #辛亥革命 #民國 #flags

Interesting book about railways, revolution, China and biographies

#ChineseRevolution
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#railways
#transport
#travel
#historiography
#Hubei

Railroad and Revolution in China
#Xinhaigeming
#ChineseRevolution
Thomas Kampen: Revolutionäre Eisenbahnplanungen: die Aufstände in der Provinz Sichuan und das Ende des chinesischen Kaiserreiches (1911), Berlin, 2002.
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