Yvette's Trip to Taiwan, July 2000
Dr. Sun Yatsen Memorial Hall

Dr. Sun Yatsen is considered the father of the Republic of China, and was named so by the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee in 1940. He was born in 1866 in China, moved to Honolulu at the age of 13, and returned to China at 18. He attended the College of Medicine for Chinese in Hong Kong. There he saw his own government as "rotten to the core", so Dr. Sun decided to overthrow the Manchu rulers of the Ching Dynasty. Even though all ten of his uprisings failed, they inspired the successful Wuchang uprising in 1911. The first democracy in Asia was finally established. Unfortunately, some "ambitious warlords" would not give up their power, so Dr. Sun stayed politically active and continually worked to improve party affairs until his death of liver cancer in 1925.







Sun Yatsen Memorial Hall is two blocks away from the Hyatt Hotel, where I happened to be staying. I walked by it everytime I decided Starbuck's coffee was in order, and one Sunday I decided I should go check it out.

















A statue of Dr. Sun Yatsen. And, yes, the guards (there is one on the other side) are real and do not move, just like the English Palace guards.

















The rest of the pictures are the park outside the Memorial Hall, which is what got me interested in the area in the first place. This is right outside the side door of the hall.















A statue in the park. The Memorial Hall is behind the trees. You can see the kite in the background; all the kite flyers were in front of the hall.


















Still in the park of the Memorial Hall. The man in the light blue shirt is singing karaoke. That is how popular it is in Asia.












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