The Regional Span Of Sun Yat Sen’s Republicanism

By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

December 2010 BOOK REVIEW
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Sun Yat Sen In Penang By Khoo Salma Nasution: Areca Books. 2008 128 pagesFew dates in East Asia’s recent past act so well as a watershed for the scholar writing on the modern history of the region as October 10, 1911 does. On that day, the Wuchang Uprising in China started what became known as the Xinhai Revolution that effectively ended China’s dynastic history on February 12, 1912. That day, the last emperor, Pu Yi, abdicated, and the Republic of China...

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Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.


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