Sun
Yat Sen in Penang
Khoo
Salma Nasution
You
can help shoulder the responsibility of saving our country by
donating your money, while our comrades in our country are sacrificing
their lives.'
- Dr. Sun Yat Sen in Penang, 1910
As
a young revolutionary, Dr. Sun Yat Sen travelled widely and lived
amongst the Chinese communities abroad, including Japan, North
America and Southeast Asia. He mobilized the overseas Chinese
with the dream of saving the Chinese nation.
This
book tells the story of how the Second Guangzhou Uprising, a turning
point of the 1911 Chinese Revolution, was planned from a place
2,400 km away - in Penang in present-day Malaysia.
Launch
of the book
'Sun Yat Sen in Penang' by Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General,
ASEAN on 18 July 2008, at The Grand Ballroom of Equatorial Hotel,
as part of Welcoming Dinner hosted by Tourism Malaysia for the
delegates of the Symposium 'The Evolution of Southeast Asian Communities'.

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From left to right: The author Khoo Salma, the Chief Minister
of Penang Y.A.B. Lim Guan Eng, ASEAN Secretary-General Dr. Surin
Pitsuwan, Malaysian Tourism Ministry Secretary-General Dato Ong
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Phaik Cheen, and Symposium Organising Chairman Dato' Seri Stephen
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Symposium was held on 18-20 July in Penang, Malaysia, organised
by the Penang Chinese Clan Council (Malaysia) and the Clan Associations
Youth Committee, Penang.
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