Sun Yat-sen assassination letter among displays at new Hong Kong exhibition
Letter, which the president of the Republic of China sent to the city in 1913, part of new show on historic revolutionary
A 1913 letter from the president of the Republic of China ordering the assassination of Sun Yat-sen in Hong Kong will go on display in the city from Friday, as part of a new exhibition on Sun’s life.
The show, called A Matter of Record, will run until March next year at the Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum, in Central, and entry is free of charge.
It features 28 exhibits on the life of the revolutionary, hailed as the father of modern China.
All exhibits are high-fidelity replicas of historical archives dating back to the founding of the Republic of China in 1912, which Sun helped bring about.
Examples include government orders and missives, personal letters and meeting minutes from the premodern era. All the exhibits are on loan from the Second Historical Archives of China in Nanjing, which holds one of the national archives.
The only one with a direct Hong Kong link is a 1913 letter from Yuan Shikai, then president of the republic, ordering a navy officer in the city, Huo Shishou, to lure Sun onto a boat and kill him.