Sun Yatsen, Robert Wilcox and Their Failed Revolutions, Honolulu and Canton 1895

Taylor & Francis

Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer is the radical, explosive retelling of the first decade of the 'Father of Modern China' Dr Sun Yatsen\u2019s globally shaped formation as a professional revolutionist, and of the impact of the adult Sun\u2019s revolutionary relationship with Hawai\u02BBi and with his varied communities of supporters there during its own most turbulent political decade, the 1890s, years in which this remote island nation transformed from native monarchy, via sovereign independent republic, to become the USA\u2019s first overseas territory. Drawn from neglected primary sources, Dynamite reveals the hitherto untold story of the secret revolutionary alliance forged in Honolulu\u2019s backstreets between Sun\u2019s Xingzhonghui and the idiosyncratic italophile soldier Robert Wilcox, \""Hawai\u02BBi\u2019s Garibaldi\"" and leader of the Kanaka/Native Hawaiian counterrevolution of January 1895. This failed uprising to restore Hawai\u02BBi\u2019s tragic last Queen, witnessed fi.