ABSTRACT
Sun Yatsen first arrived in Honolulu as an adult aboard the SS City of Peking, on 12 October 1894, thereby commencing his chronological Third Visit to Hawai‘i. This chapter will focus upon Sun’s activities during these Third and Fourth Visits. The Hawaiian Constitution of 4 July 1894 parroted many sections of the American Constitution and Declaration of Independence verbatim, including references to free speech and the natural rights of man. Chinese settlers in Hawai‘i have been estimated to have organised up to 200 distinct organisations of their own in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In fact, only ten days after the publication of Duncan’s Hong Kong Telegraph’s article, Sun Yatsen himself managed to become a first-time published author, with his own slim memoir in English, Kidnapped in London appearing on newsstands in England.
