People in Taiwan Remember Sun Yat-sen on 91st Anniversary of His Death
People of various circles in Taiwan held memorial ceremonies on the 91st anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's death in Taipei on Saturday to remember the great Chinese revolutionary.
Leaders of Kuomintang Ma Ying-jeou and Wu Den-yih presented wreaths and bowed to the statue of Sun Yat-sen.
Hung Hsiu-chu, chairperson candidate of Kuomintang, criticized the Democratic Progressive Party's attempts to abolish Sun's statue at the memorial ceremony.
They try to smear and defame Dr. Sun Yat-sen's bronze statue. This, we think, is not only an unwise and illegal act but also an atrocity and unruly conduct. They bear no respect, let alone the merit of remembering the great leader, said Hung.
Leaders of New Party, People First Party and 300 social organizations also attended the memorial ceremony or organized their own memorial services. They issued a joint declaration to oppose the Democratic Progressive Party's act.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen was a great leader commonly recognized by people across the strait. If you abolish his statue, what does it mean? The Democratic Progressive Party said they are turning to just, but actually they are running to national secession and even violence. This is what we have been concerned about. Today we are here to remember Dr. Sun, not to go back to history with him, but to call his spirit back, said Sun Wuyen, a descendant of Sun Yat-sen.
Other cities across Taiwan Island also saw memorial services on the day.
Parties and organizations on China's mainland will hold a series of events to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sun Yat-sen this year.
Born on Nov. 12, 1866, Sun is regarded as a great national hero, patriot, statesman and the forerunner of China's democratic revolution. He died of illness on March 12, 1925.
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Farah, Kyle, Andrew, Jessica and Al visit Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall for the first time (Al's 11th) and explore the area. After their exploration they hit up Rabbit Table in Gongguan to play some intense board games. The episode finishes with a fare well to Andrew and Jess as they say good bye.
We had many more videos with Andrew and Jess, but until our hard drive is fixed we can't show them. One of the videos that was our personal favorite was drinking snake blood.
When we visit the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei City, we will see a bronze statue in the Lobby, a memorial to the Republic of China's National Father, Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC) Establishment from the Xinhai Revolution Wuchang Uprising, overthrew The Ching dynasty on 10 October 1911. The Ching dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912. Besides, Taiwan's highest movie award ceremony, the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, is held annually October or November, almost in this Memorial Hall Auditorium.
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We can read a paragraph carved traditional Chinese characters below the bronze statue of the Sun Yat-sen, in his handwriting from the notion of the Great Unity《禮記》大同篇appeared in the Lǐyùn 禮運 the Conveyance of Rites chapter of the Book of Rites as below. (The Book of Rites is a collection of texts describing the social forms, administration, and ceremonial rites of the Zhou dynasty (1046 BC–256 BC), which is also an Ancient Chinese wisdom.)
大道之行也，天下為公，選賢與能，講信修睦，故人不獨親其親，不獨子其子，使老有所終，壯有所用，幼有所長，鰥、寡、孤、獨、廢疾者皆有所養；男有分，女有歸，貨惡其棄於地也、不必藏於己，力惡其不出於身也、不必為己；是故謀閉而不興，盜竊亂賊而不作，故外戶而不閉，是謂大同。 〈 孫文〉
When the great way prevails, the world community is equally shared by all. The worthy and able persons are chosen as office holders. Mutual confidence is fostered and good neighborliness is cultivated. Therefore people do not regard only their own parents as parents, nor do they treat only their own children as children. Provision is made for the aged till spending one's last years, the adults are given employment, and the immature enabled to grow up. Widowers, widows, orphans, solitaries as well as the disabled and sick are all well taken care of. Men have their own proper roles, women have their own family. While they hate to see wealth lying about on the ground causes waste, they do not necessarily keep it for their own use. While they hate not to exert their own effort, they do not necessarily devote it for their own ends. Thus evil scheming is repressed, and robbers, thieves and other lawless elements fail to arise. So that outer doors do not have to be shut. This is called the Age of Great Harmony as an ideal or perfect society in Great Unity. - Sun Wen - (Sun Yat-sen was the pseudonym of Sun Wen.)
清朝 ( 統治時期1644年-1912年 ) : The Ching dynasty (or The Qing dynasty) ruling from ( 1644 to 1912 ).
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Who deviated from the 1911 Revolution
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100 years ago, the 1911 Chinese Revolution overthrew the
2,100-year-old monarchy, and founded the first
democratic republic in Asia: Republic of China.
As the descendant of Sun Yat-sen, Sun Suifang says
the Revolution's centennial is of great significance.
However, she told Hong Kong based Ming Pao Daily News that
the thinking her grandfather passed down has been twisted
by the CCP, making her very angry.
Sun Suifang indicated that ten years ago, the Beijing Regime
marked the 90th anniversary of 1911 Chinese Revolution.
At the ceremony, the CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin,
claimed that Sun Yat-sen proposed a new San-min Doctrine
consisting of an alliance with Russia, support for workers and helping the peasants.
Infuriated by Jiang's distortion of history, Sun Suifang
criticized its inconsistency with the facts, stating that Sun Yat-sen
never spoke such remarks for the Communist Party.
She strongly denounced the CCP for inventing facts about
real San-min Doctrine.
Xin Haonian, a renowned historian, also noted
this problem in many of his speeches. He said that
an unalterable fact is that all along, Mr. Sun Yat-sen
developed only one San-min Doctrine.
Xin Haonian: Sun Yat-sen only developed one
San-min Doctrine. That is, Nationalism, Democracy
and the People's Livelihood.
In his speech entitled Who deviated from the 1911 Revolution,
Xin Haonian specified that it was not within Sun Yat-sen's policy to
ally with Russia and accommodate the CCP,
but is was the Soviet government that intended to ally Sun and
accommodate the CCP. The CCP forged such remarks
and made propaganda all along.
Xin Haonian: Lenin sent three instructions, two of them were
very definite. One is founding the Communist Party in China,
the other is looking for the joint force in China.
Sun Suifang criticized Jiang Zemin's fabrication of facts in her letter to Jiang in 2002. In 2003, Jiang replied
that he would like to sponsor Sun to launch a
1911 Chinese Revolution campaign. And in 2008, Jiang claimed again
he would sponsor Sun with as much as USD 10 million.
But Sun Suifang said that she would not take the money,
or else, freely expressing the intended meaning of the revolution would be restricted
because it is distorting historical foundation.
According to Taiwan based Want-Daily reports, Sun Suifang
believes that the CCP's manipulation of Sun Yat-sen's thinking
is politically motivated. For example, in 1949, Mao Tse-Tung,
in his article titled On the People's Democratic Dictatorship
classified all the revolutions led by Sun Yat-sen as
bourgeois revolutions.
Mao claimed, Sun Yat-sen, in despair, encountered
the October Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party.
Sun Huifang rebuked this as nonsense, saying that
her grandfather would never despair, he had been struggling
untiringly all his life.
She also pointed out, according to a new survey conducted
about Revolutionary Martyrs at Huanghuagang,
72 among total 86 martyrs were born of ordinary citizens,
how could that become the bourgeois revolutions?
Dr. Chen Yishen (Associate Researcher, Academia Sinica):
He (Sun) has an ideal of San-min Doctrine for the country.
To complete the 1911 Revolution, he certainly relied on some
underground organizations to create new forces,
triggering the collapse of the Qing empire.
So he had quite a variety of forces combined.
The remarks that Sun Yat-sen is bourgeoisie is
an interpretation of Marx or of the Communist Party.
In 1981, when Sun Suifang paid homage to her grandfather
at the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, she found
that the emblem of the Kuomintang of China (KMT) disappeared.
Under her strong request, the Nanjing Municipal Government
made a repair. But this May, when she returned to visit again,
she found Preliminary Civil Rights, the stone inscription
next to the tomb, had been erased.
These acts of vandalism made her feel very sad.
However, 76-year-old Sun Suifang expresses that
she is not afraid of hard work.
As the centenary of 1911 Revolution approaches,
Sun has made visits around the world,
presenting 100 Bronze Statues of Sun Yat-sen,
and vigorously promoting his revolution stories.
Sun Suifang said, it is impossible for her to
give up the spirit of Sun Yat-sen.
In order to promote the idea of Sun Yat-sen,
she has made over 1,000 speeches around the world.
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Dr. Sun Yat-sen statue unveiled in Cleveland Ohio
A delegation from Zhongshan, China returned to sister city Cleveland Ohio and presented the city with a gift -- a bronze statue of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the first president and founding father of the Republic of China. Dr. Sun visited Cleveland during his exile years in the United States. The statue resides at the Emperor's Palace in Cleveland's Chinatown neighborhood on Rockwell. This video is the unveiling of the statue by members of the Zhongshan delegation and local leaders such as Anthony Yen, Margaret Wong, Jason Lin, Lisa Wong and Cleveland councilmen Brian Cummings, Joe Cimperman and TJ Dow.
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Tired of being hounded for his high-school tuition fee, Lefty sets his eyes on a bronze statue of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (father of Republican China), long abandoned in storage at school. He concocts a scheme and cajoles his classmates to steal and sell the Country Father for hard cash.
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Yeung Ku-wan Memorial Process 楊衢雲紀念碑 by Kacey Wong
Yeung Ku-wan (19 December 1861 – 11 January 1901) was a Chinese revolutionary of the late Qing dynasty. In 1890, Yeung started the Furen Literary Society (輔仁文社) in British colonial Hong Kong to spread ideas of revolution against the Qing Dynasty and to establish a republic in China. He became the first President of the Hong Kong Chapter of the Revive China Society in 1894 and was, with Sun Yat-sen, in charge of planning an uprising in Canton (now Guangzhou) in 1895 and in Huizhou in 1900. Yeung was assassinated in 1901 in Hong Kong by an agent sent by the Qing government. This video documented the complicated process of creating the bronze sculpture that commemorate this unsung hero of modern China by Hong Kong sculptor Kacey Wong.
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Sun Yat-sen (; 12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925) was the founding father of the Republic of China. The first provisional president of the Republic of China, Sun was a Chinese medical doctor, writer, philosopher, Georgist, calligrapher and revolutionary. As the foremost pioneer and first leader of a Republican China, Sun is referred to as the Father of the Nation in the Republic of China (ROC) and the forerunner of democratic revolution in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Sun played an instrumental role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty (the last imperial dynasty of China) during the years leading up to the Xinhai Revolution. He was appointed to serve as Provisional President of the Republic of China when it was founded in 1912. He later co-founded the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party of China), serving as its first leader. Sun was a uniting figure in post-Imperial China, and he remains unique among 20th-century Chinese politicians for being widely revered amongst the people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Although Sun is considered to be one of the greatest leaders of modern China, his political life was one of constant struggle and frequent exile. After the success of the revolution and the Han Chinese regaining power after 268 years of living under Manchurian rule (Qing dynasty), he quickly resigned from his post as President of the newly founded Republic of China to Yuan Shikai, and led successive revolutionary governments as a challenge to the warlords who controlled much of the nation. Sun did not live to see his party consolidate its power over the country during the Northern Expedition. His party, which formed a fragile alliance with the Chinese Communist Party, split into two factions after his death.
Sun's chief legacy resides in his developing of the political philosophy known as the Three Principles of the People: nationalism (Han Chinese nationalism: independence from imperialist domination – taking back power from the Manchurian Qing dynasty), “rights of the people,” sometimes translated as “democracy,” and the people's livelihood (just society).
Zhongshan
Zhongshan is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China, with a population of over 3 million. The city used to be called Xiangshan.
Zhongshan is one of a very few cities in China named after a person. It is named after Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who is known in Mandarin as Sun Zhongshan. Sun, the founding father of the Republic of China who is also regarded positively by the People's Republic, was born in Cuiheng village in Nanlang Township of what was then Xiangshan County. In 1925, the year after his death, Xiangshan was renamed Zhongshan in his honor.
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Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen (/ˈsʊn ˈjɑːtˈsɛn/; 12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925) was a Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China, and medical practitioner. As the foremost pioneer of Republic of China, Sun is referred to as the Father of the Nation in the Republic of China (ROC), and the forerunner of democratic revolution in the People's Republic of China. Sun played an instrumental role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty during the years leading up to the Double Ten Revolution. He was appointed to serve as Provisional President of the Republic of China, when it was founded in 1912. He later co-founded the Kuomintang (KMT), serving as its first leader. Sun was a uniting figure in post-Imperial China, and remains unique among 20th-century Chinese politicians for being widely revered amongst the people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Although Sun is considered one of the greatest leaders of modern China, his political life was one of constant struggle and frequent exile. After the success of the revolution, he quickly resigned, due to Beiyang Clique pressure, from his post as President of the newly founded Republic of China, and led successive revolutionary governments as a challenge to the warlords who controlled much of the nation. Sun did not live to see his party consolidate its power over the country during the Northern Expedition. His party, which formed a fragile alliance with the Communists, split into two factions after his death. Sun's chief legacy resides in his developing of the political philosophy known as the Three Principles of the People: nationalism, democracy, and the people's livelihood.
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Welcome to our Hong Kong Walking Tour in the Avenue of Stars
星光大道, in Tsim Sha Tsui. We also shot the 2019 Brand New World Centre. You will also see the Peninsula on the way, the Space Museum, Cultural Centre and much more. Our video is shot in Ultra HD 4K, crystal clear quality, as if you are actually here.
'The Avenue of Stars (Chinese: 星光大道), modelled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is located along the Victoria Harbour waterfront in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. It honours celebrities of the Hong Kong film industry.[1] In late January 2019, the avenue has been reopen to the public after 3 years of renovation.
The Avenue of Stars is the eastern node of several tourist attractions along the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront. In addition to the promenade and New World Centre, a number of attractions exist including the Museum of Art, Space Museum, Cultural Centre and the Clock Tower.
Entering from Salisbury Garden, a 4.5-metre-tall replica of the statuette given to winners at the Hong Kong Film Awards greets visitors. Along the 440-metre promenade, the story of Hong Kong's one hundred years of cinematic history is told through inscriptions printed on nine red pillars. Set into the promenade are plaques honouring the celebrities. Some plaques contain hand prints and autographs of the stars set in cement, but most of the plaques only contain celebrities' names as they are now deceased. A 2.5-metre bronze statue of Bruce Lee was erected along the Avenue of Stars in 2005.
The promenade commands a stunning panoramic view across Victoria Harbour. At night it is a popular viewing place for the Symphony of Lights display.
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The New World Centre (Chinese: 新世界中心) was retail-hotel-residential-office complex on Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It housed two hotels, two office towers, a shopping complex and serviced apartments. It was reported to be one of the largest commercial complexes in the world at the time.[1] It used to house a Tokyu Department Store. It was located near the Sogo department store and the Hong Kong Space Museum, opposite the MTR East Tsim Sha Tsui Station. It was closed on March 31, 2010 for demolition and a new 63-storey hotel by New World Group is being built on the site with expected opening in 2019.[2]'
'Tsim Sha Tsui (Chinese: 尖沙咀), often abbreviated as TST, is an urban area in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong. The area is administratively part of the Yau Tsim Mong District. Tsim Sha Tsui East is a piece of land reclaimed from the Hung Hom Bay now east of Tsim Sha Tsui.
Geographically, Tsim Sha Tsui is a cape on the tip of the Kowloon Peninsula pointing towards Victoria Harbour, opposite Central. Several villages had been established in this location before Kowloon was ceded to the British Empire in 1860. Tsim Sha Tsui in Chinese means sharp sandspit. It was also known as Heung Po Tau (香埗頭), i.e. a port for exporting incense tree.
Tsim Sha Tsui is a major tourist hub in Hong Kong, with many high-end shops and restaurants that cater to tourists. Many of Hong Kong's museums are located in the area.
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The Former Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower in Tsim Sha Tsui is a famous landmark of Hong Kong.
Tsim Sha Tsui was once the terminus of the Kowloon-Canton Railway (KCR). After the British Section of the railway was opened for traffic on 1 October 1910, the construction of the railway station in Tsim Sha Tsui started in 1913. Construction on the railway station and its clock tower were completed in 1915. The main building of the Tsim Sha Tsui station was demolished in 1978. The station was relocated to Hung Hom to make way for the Hong Kong Space Museum and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. But the Clock Tower of the station was not demolished and was kept in place. It is all that remains standing of the station. The clock tower is forty-four metres high, surmounted by a seven-metre-high (23 ft) lightning rod. It is now surrounded by the public piazza of the Cultural Centre and has become a landmark of Hong Kong. Six pillars of the railway were relocated to the Urban Council Centenary Garden in TST East. The Avenue of Stars starts at the New World Centre shopping centre near the Cultural Centre.
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Communist statues and reliefs in China
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1. In front of the Xinhai Revolution Museum, Wuhan.
2. Statue of Three Martyrs (Peng Chufan, Liu Fuji and Yang Hongsheng), next to the Hubei Theater, Wuhan.
3. Inside the Xinhai Revolution Museum, Wuhan.
4. On the square in front of the Memorial Hall of Revolutionary Martyrs, Yuhuatai Memorial Park of Revolutionary Martyrs, Nanjing.
5. A Group Statue of Revolutionary Martyrs, Yuhuatai Memorial Park of Revolutionary Martyrs, Nanjing.
6. The Memorial Wall for Police Heroes and Martyrs of Jiangsu Province, Yuhuatai Memorial Park of Revolutionary Martyrs, Nanjing.
7. Around Monument Square, Yuhuatai Memorial Park of Revolutionary Martyrs, Nanjing.
8. Outside the Xi'an Eighth Route Army Office Museum, Xi'an.
9. Beixin street, near the entrance of the Xi'an Eighth Route Army Office Museum, Xi'an.
10. East street, near the Xi'an bell tower, Xi'an.
11. Linjiang Middle Road or Linjiang East Road, Chengdu.
12. Below the Monument to the People's Heroes, Huangpu park, Shanghai.
13. In front of the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, Beijing.
14. In front of the National Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing.
Five Goat Statue
Guangzhou is sometimes called The Five Goat City. Legend has it that five gods, in the form of goats, visited Guangzhou in ancient times while the city was being founded and promised the residents that they would never starve. Seeing as the Cantonese will eat anything that moves, crawls, or breathes, this isn't too hard to believe.
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping (Pinyin: Dèng Xiǎopíng, [tɤŋ˥˩ ɕjɑʊ˩ pʰiŋ˧˥] ( ); 22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese politician and reformist leader of the People's Republic of China who, after Mao Zedong's death, led his country towards a market economy. While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (de jure leader of the Communist Party of China), he nonetheless was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1992. As the core of the second-generation leaders, Deng shared his power with several powerful older politicians commonly known as the Eight Elders.
Born into a peasant background in Guang'an, Sichuan, Deng studied and worked in France in the 1920s, where he was influenced by Marxism-Leninism. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1923. Upon his return to China he worked as a political commissar in rural regions and was considered a revolutionary veteran of the Long March. Following the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Deng worked in Tibet and other southwestern regions to consolidate Communist control.
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