https://www.scmp.com/rss/31652/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Wee Kek Koon Wee Kek Koon Last week, I noted that the contents of the Albatross file cast doubts on the popular narrative that Singapore was abruptly “kicked out” of Malaysia on August 9, 1965. The documents show that separation was not a unilateral expulsion but the outcome of months of secret, bilateral planning by senior leaders on both sides. The idea originated within Singapore’s own leadership in 1964, when figures such as then Minister of Finance Goh Keng Swee (who opened the file) judged that it was politically... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/chinese-culture/article/3337481/chinese-historical-myths-are-accepted-fact-and-why-they-have-endured?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/chinese-culture/article/3337481/chinese-historical-myths-are-accepted-fact-and-why-they-have-endured?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:15:08 +0000 The People’s Liberation Army kept up its manoeuvres around Taiwan on Friday, a day after the island’s leader William Lai Ching-te delivered a speech that Beijing criticised as “provoking hostility”, although there were no reports of an uptick in the number of planes sent. Taiwan’s defence ministry reported on Friday morning that in the 24 hours to 6am, the PLA sent at least 20 aircraft and 10 vessels to patrol the island’s northern, western and southwestern sides. It said 13 of the aircraft... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3282011/pla-sends-planes-and-ships-near-taiwan-speech-william-lai-continues-cause-ripples?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3282011/pla-sends-planes-and-ships-near-taiwan-speech-william-lai-continues-cause-ripples?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:17:59 +0000 With post-pandemic travel to mainland China growing, many Hong Kong residents are on the lookout for weekend getaway options. Zhongshan, renamed from Xiangshan in 1925 to honour the “Father of Modern China” Sun Yat-sen (who is better known in China as Sun Zhongshan), has many 19th century buildings, parks and memorials. In recent years, the city has become a popular destination for sightseeing, dining and shopping. The new Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link, made up of two bridges over and a tunnel under... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3271642/day-trip-zhongshan-hong-kong-how-get-there-what-do-city?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3271642/day-trip-zhongshan-hong-kong-how-get-there-what-do-city?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Jul 2024 23:15:08 +0000 The Financial Times reported last week that the United States had foiled an attempt to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on US soil. On November 29 the Justice Department said an Indian national had been charged with plotting to assassinate Pannun, and alleged an Indian government official was also involved in the planning. The US government has raised concerns with New Delhi. This came several months after the Canadian government claimed that there was “credible” intelligence that links Indian... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3243366/kidnap-sun-yat-sen-1890s-london-murder-sikh-separatist-and-attempt-kill-another-north-america?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3243366/kidnap-sun-yat-sen-1890s-london-murder-sikh-separatist-and-attempt-kill-another-north-america?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Nov 2023 23:45:16 +0000 Southeast Asia and China are geographically close, yet in the last century only a handful of those who made their mark in the region have been able to influence the inner workings of their giant northern neighbour. These include business titans Tan Kah Kee and Robert Kuok, plague fighter, Dr Wu Lien-Teh who had a huge influence on China’s public health, and founding father of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, whose deep engagements with China’s senior leaders were quite impactful. A recent invitation to a... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3237094/how-southeast-asia-influenced-china-through-business-titans-tan-kah-kee-and-robert-kuok?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3237094/how-southeast-asia-influenced-china-through-business-titans-tan-kah-kee-and-robert-kuok?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 06 Oct 2023 10:25:31 +0000 Public hostility across the Taiwan Strait has reached worrying levels in recent years as contact has been cut, former Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou told Beijing’s point man on Taiwan policy on Thursday. “Regrettably, due to political disturbances and the Covid-19 pandemic, exchange programmes were severed for years, and it worries me to see the hostility of people across the strait grow,” Ma said in a meeting in the central city of Wuhan with Song Tao, head of Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3215456/cross-strait-hostility-worrying-level-taiwans-ma-ying-jeou-tells-top-mainland-china-official?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3215456/cross-strait-hostility-worrying-level-taiwans-ma-ying-jeou-tells-top-mainland-china-official?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:01:06 +0000 Yat-sen, a musical, was originally commissioned for the 50th Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2022, but ended up being pushed back one year because of venue closures during the Covid-19 pandemic. All that extra rehearsal time showed in the slick production about Sun Yat-sen, the “founding father” of modern China, as a young man. It is a tale of clashes between conservatism and progression, of hot-headed youth battling authoritarianism, of hard choices and unforeseeable sacrifices. If those references... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3212487/musical-about-modern-chinas-founding-father-sun-yat-sen-starring-ling-man-lung-showcases-impressive?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3212487/musical-about-modern-chinas-founding-father-sun-yat-sen-starring-ling-man-lung-showcases-impressive?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:45:11 +0000 Residents should be confident Hong Kong is on the path to success with the principle of “patriots” holding office now firmly in place and the city enjoying strong support from the central government, acting leader Paul Chan Mo-po said on Thursday at a ceremony marking the 1911 revolution that ended dynastic rule in China. Addressing the same event, the country’s top official in charge of Taiwanese affairs called on the city to stand united against independence for the self-ruled island, noting... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3149872/hong-kong-right-path-success-acting-leader-says-evoking?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3149872/hong-kong-right-path-success-acting-leader-says-evoking?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:50:34 +0000 It is the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the Hungry Ghost Festival, and fires blaze on the streets. Some onlookers pray. Many more stand by and watch plumes of black smoke billow above the vintage shopfronts and restaurants. The pious residents of Penang’s state capital, George Town, are burning “hell money” to appease the ancestors who emerge from the “lower realm” around this time of year. Deeper into this Unesco Heritage Site neighbourhood, at a temple on King Street... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3114454/how-sun-yat-sen-shaped-penang-malaysia-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3114454/how-sun-yat-sen-shaped-penang-malaysia-and?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 20 Dec 2020 02:15:08 +0000 How do we see the last 70 years, when a revolution that succeeded under Mao Zedong in 1949 was followed by reform? In this case, Deng Xiaoping didn’t make the mistake of calling it bianfa. He said it was gaige. In English, we translate both of them as reform. So the word reform can be confusing. If you associate it with bianfa, it’s very negative. If you associate it with gaige, it’s very positive. So be careful how you use the word. Thirty years of successful geming, followed by 40 years of... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3030785/chinas-reforms-dont-contradict-communist-revolution-they?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3030785/chinas-reforms-dont-contradict-communist-revolution-they?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:00:05 +0000 On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, two words probably stand out. First, the “revolution” that succeeded in 1949. And then, the “reforms” that started about 40 years ago. These two words are often put together, sometimes in opposition, suggesting that reforms are better than revolution; at other times, that a revolution is necessary, reforms are a waste of time and unable to achieve what people want. So these two words have a very interesting and intimate... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3030729/how-china-chose-communist-revolution-over-capitalism-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3030729/how-china-chose-communist-revolution-over-capitalism-and?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:00:06 +0000 Luminaries of the American Chinese community were treated to a rare symbol of unity between the US, Taiwan and mainland China this week in New York City, when the family of a former Kuomintang general from Guangdong was honoured for his pioneering contributions to building US-China relations. More than a century ago, Ying Hsing Wen was one of the first two Chinese cadets to graduate from the US Military Academy, and at a time of souring bilateral tensions brought about by the United States’... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2173686/chinese-american-who-pioneered-warm-relations-100-years-ago?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2173686/chinese-american-who-pioneered-warm-relations-100-years-ago?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Nov 2018 18:30:54 +0000 On the office walls of the Kuomintang association’s Hong Kong chapter in Sham Shui Po are pictures of Ng Hon-lim from when he was 27 years old. In one large black-and-white photograph, he stands wearing a black mandarin collared suit, looking determined and proud. His family fled to Hong Kong in 1950 to escape communist China, when Ng was 11, and they eked out a living tilling fields in Fanling. Is it one birthday, two Chinas? “When I decided to go to Taiwan to study, people either gave me lai... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2114900/old-soldiers-hopes-one-china-grow-double-tenth-celebration-hong-kong-draws?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2114900/old-soldiers-hopes-one-china-grow-double-tenth-celebration-hong-kong-draws?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Oct 2017 07:40:25 +0000 The Hong Kong premiere of a symphonic work to celebrate the 150th birthday of Dr Sun Yat-sen has sparked a debate over its creator’s decision not to use Sun’s universally accepted title as the “father of modern China”. The Sun Yat-sen Symphonic Suite, which premiered in Guangzhou five years ago to mark the centennial of the 1911 revolution, will be staged in Hong Kong next month ahead of performances in Malaysia and Taiwan. “For us on the mainland, Sun is a great national hero, a great patriot,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2002537/hong-kong-philharmonic-awkwardly-out-tune-debate-over-legacy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2002537/hong-kong-philharmonic-awkwardly-out-tune-debate-over-legacy?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:15:45 +0000 Three recent blog essays by the young writer Han Han - on revolution, democracy and freedom - sparked a fierce debate on the internet. Among his views, his support for reform over revolution was the most contentious. Han's popularity is of course one reason his postings ignited such a debate. But the fact is, the subject resonated because China stands at a crossroads. The relevance of revolution in today's society was a hot topic among scholars three months ago when the centenary of the 1911... https://www.scmp.com/article/989096/changing-minds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/989096/changing-minds?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000 China in Revolution: The Road to 1911 by Liu Heung-shing Hong Kong University Press If a picture paints a thousand words, Liu Heung-shing's latest opus on China's 1911 Revolution presents at least 300,000. But for a book of that magnitude, no words will suffice to convey all the underlying dynamics carried in the 300 historic photographs, at least one-third of which are seen for the first time. Launched on the eve of the centenary of the Xinhai Revolution, the book is in fact about more... https://www.scmp.com/article/983986/superb-visual-record-puts-1911-revolution-context?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/983986/superb-visual-record-puts-1911-revolution-context?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:00:00 +0000 Colluding with foreign powers to topple the government is a crime regularly denounced by government propaganda in China. This is seen as such a heinous transgression in people's mind that an offender is despised by all. But, every time we commemorate this or that event in our revolutionary past, we can't help but see that the great revolutionaries we honour today did exactly that. The high-profile celebrations of the 1911 revolution especially embarrassed the central government. From the... https://www.scmp.com/article/981935/rights-wrong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/981935/rights-wrong?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:00:00 +0000 China's 1911 revolution started 100 years ago today. It would go on to overthrow the Qing dynasty and 2,000 years of imperial rule. The historic event is also known as the Xinhai revolution. October 10 was celebrated as National Day on the mainland until the victory of communism in 1949. The day continues to be celebrated in Taiwan. Several organisations in Hong Kong are commemorating the event with special shows. They include exhibitions at the Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum and the Hong Kong Cultural... https://www.scmp.com/article/981401/centenary-celebrations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/981401/centenary-celebrations?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:00:00 +0000 Wuhan has been one big construction site for the past three years. With city planners seeing the centenary of the 1911 revolution as a rare opportunity to promote the city to a wider world, the Hubei capital undertook an unprecedented facelift of historical sites. The city has been so aggressive in promoting itself as the 'Capital of the First Uprising' because the revolt on October 10, 1911 in Wuchang- one of the three cities that merged to become Wuhan- was the first of a number of bloody... https://www.scmp.com/article/981372/cradle-revolt-hoping-cash?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/981372/cradle-revolt-hoping-cash?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:00:00 +0000 1840 Opium war breaks out, putting an end to a long period of self-imposed Chinese isolation. 1850-1864 The Taiping rebellion against the Qing government, led by heterodox Christian convert Hong Xiuquan, sees southern China descend into civil war. It becomes an inspiration for Sun Yat-sen, who will lead the 1911 revolution decades later. 1861-1895 The Self-Strengthening Movement, a period of institutional reform, is initiated during the late Qing dynasty. Some of the ruling elite believe... https://www.scmp.com/article/981273/1911-revolution?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/981273/1911-revolution?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:00:00 +0000 Reports by the South China Morning Post a hundred years ago provide many interesting details about the 1911 revolution, including Hong Kong's role as a transit point for revolutionaries, Sun Yat-sen's personality, vivid eyewitness descriptions of the uprisings and what the revolutionaries were like. Founded in 1903, the Post was one of four English-language newspapers in Hong Kong in 1911. It gave extensive coverage to the uprisings and the establishment of the Republic of China. Many reports... https://www.scmp.com/article/981327/news-reports-time-painted-vivid-picture-plots-and-uprisings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/981327/news-reports-time-painted-vivid-picture-plots-and-uprisings?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:00:00 +0000 As celebrations marking the centenary of the 1911 revolution near their climax on the mainland, the usually politically sensitive anniversary has become a rare opportunity to revive debate about democracy and political reform - even in a year that's seen intensified efforts to stifle dissent. For reform-minded officials and liberal intellectuals, ideas of constitutional democracy that ignited the revolution 100 years ago - marking the end of China's imperial dynasties and the first attempt by... https://www.scmp.com/article/980988/something-celebrate?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/980988/something-celebrate?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:00:00 +0000 A hidden corner in Central that was a cradle of China's 1911 revolution has been revamped as a historic garden to retell stories of the event. The open space behind Pak Tsz Lane will open to the public late next month to celebrate the centenary of the revolution. 'This initiative provides the public with a valuable open space while at the same time manifesting the significance of Pak Tsz Lane in modern history,' said Barry Cheung Chun-yuen, chairman of the Urban Renewal Authority which... https://www.scmp.com/article/980254/revolutionary-echoes-central?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/980254/revolutionary-echoes-central?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:00:00 +0000 After all this time, you'd think there would be nothing controversial about the legacy of Dr Sun Yat-sen, but that would underestimate the mainland's unpredictable sensitivities. For reasons that have yet to be explained, the world premiere in Beijing of a Hong Kong production of a new opera, Dr Sun Yat-sen, has been abruptly cancelled. The anticipated work had been announced globally and previewed in April in New York. Suddenly it was announced yesterday that next Friday's premiere was off and... https://www.scmp.com/article/979970/wrong-note-sun-yat-sen-opera?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/979970/wrong-note-sun-yat-sen-opera?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:00:00 +0000 Guangzhou-born artist Fong So's paintings (including The May Fourth Movement, left) and woodcut prints exploring the Xinhai revolution and its influence on China. Opens today. Daily, 1pm-5pm, Tsang Shiu Tim Art Hall, HKUST, Clear Water Bay. Inquiries: 2358 6149. Ends Sept 18. Opens tomorrow. Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm, Sat, 9am-1pm, Lobby gallery, Chung Chi College Administrative Building, CUHK, Sha Tin. Inquiries: 3943 6444. Ends Sept 30 https://www.scmp.com/article/978182/centenary-chinas-1911-revolution?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/978182/centenary-chinas-1911-revolution?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:00:00 +0000 A magazine publisher has been demoted and a journalist suspended after the publication of an interview with a Taiwanese historian who accused 'Father of the Nation' Sun Yat-sen of trying to make deals with Japan and who criticised China for trying to stir up nationalist sentiment. Chen Zhong, president of the prestigious Nanfengchuang (South Wind Window) magazine, a Guangzhou-based biweekly under the Guangzhou Daily newspaper group, was transferred to a less important position in the group on... https://www.scmp.com/article/976455/high-price-airing-sun-yat-sen-criticism?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/976455/high-price-airing-sun-yat-sen-criticism?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:00:00 +0000 The 22nd Hong Kong Book Fair opened at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai yesterday. Local publishers Chung Hwa Book Co, China Publishing House and Orient Press rolled out new titles to mark this year's 100th anniversary of the 1911 Revolution. A History of the Republic of China, published by Chung Hwa Book Co, provides an in-depth record of the country's history from 1912-1949. China Publishing House has put out several books on Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen. 'We have... https://www.scmp.com/article/974027/books-highlight-1911-revolution?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/974027/books-highlight-1911-revolution?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:00:00 +0000 This year marks the centenary of the Xinhai Revolution, an event that led to the birth of modern China. The revolution, named after the sexagenary cycle of the Chinese calendar, brought to an end thousands of years of imperial rule and led to the establishment of the Chinese republic. To look back on a century of change, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and Hubei Provincial Museum jointly present 'Centenary of China's 1911 Revolution' at the Hong Kong Museum of History from... https://www.scmp.com/article/742584/celebrating-birth-modern-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/742584/celebrating-birth-modern-china?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:00:00 +0000 The man who set up the revolutionary base at Castle Peak Farm is largely forgotten, just like the history of the site he owned. In the exhibition on the centenary of the 1911 Revolution now running at the Museum of History, Li Ki-tong, a man of wealth and position who donated his fortune at the cost of bankruptcy, is mentioned nowhere, even though the exhibition has a section highlighting Hong Kong as a cradle of the movement. Li, who inherited a fortune from his father, belonged to the... https://www.scmp.com/article/742291/forgotten-benefactor-helped-hide-movements-leaders?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/742291/forgotten-benefactor-helped-hide-movements-leaders?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:00:00 +0000 Four cities on the mainland are competing for the honour of leading celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai revolution - Wuhan , Guangzhou, Nanjing and Shanghai. Gaining the title would bring prestige and commercial benefits and attract thousands of visitors during the centenary year. Leading the race is Wuhan, the city where troops of the Qing dynasty mutinied on October 10, 1911, and captured the palace of the provincial governor. It was the spark for the fire that brought down... https://www.scmp.com/article/734631/cities-vie-centenary-honours-beijing-trumps?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/734631/cities-vie-centenary-honours-beijing-trumps?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 Jan 2011 16:00:00 +0000 The Mega Events Fund may subsidise the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, which resulted in the founding of the provisional government of the Republic of China and the downfall of the Qing dynasty, the Tourism Commission told a Legislative Council panel. Legislator Albert Chan Wai-yip (pictured) said cities such as Zhongshan had allocated billions of dollars to the cause. https://www.scmp.com/article/731386/fund-may-back-centenary?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/731386/fund-may-back-centenary?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Better City, Better Life', the omnipresent theme of the World Expo, which ended yesterday, is certainly etched in the memories of over 73 million visitors to the displays of culture and technology at the six-month-long extravaganza. Out-of-town visitors are also surely impressed by the skyline and cosmopolitan feel of the host city, which reportedly spent up to 400 billion yuan (HK$464 billion) to spruce up the infrastructure. Indeed, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon probably... https://www.scmp.com/article/729168/redevelopment-fever-sweeps-through-cities?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/729168/redevelopment-fever-sweeps-through-cities?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:00:00 +0000 He persuaded the last emperor to abdicate, was the first prime minister of the Republic of China, negotiated to keep the British out of Tibet and was a personal friend of two US presidents. Tang Shaoyi is the pride of the small township of Tangjiawan (the bay of the Tang family), on the outskirts of Zhuhai , and one of the main reasons why earlier this year it earned the title of a township famous for its history and culture, one of only 20 on the mainland. It has been inhabited for ... https://www.scmp.com/article/607382/son-worship?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/607382/son-worship?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:00:00 +0000 About 100 million yuan will be spent on building a 1911 revolution museum in Guangzhou. An official from the provincial Cultural Bureau's museum department in charge of the venture said the 82,000-square-metre project, which would include an 18,000-square-metre museum building, would start by the end of this year and it was hoped the museum would open in 2008. 'All funding will be given by the provincial government alone,' the official, who did not want to be named, said yesterday. 'The... https://www.scmp.com/article/555754/new-museum-showcase-relics-1911-revolt?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/555754/new-museum-showcase-relics-1911-revolt?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:00:00 +0000 Alice Yeung Min-wing, 15 SKH Bishop Mok Sau Tseng Secondary School Sun Yat-sen. He was a brave person who started the 1911 revolution and ended feudalism in China. A good political leader should have the courage to carry out reforms, not just sit back and talk without doing anything. His 10 failures did not discourage him, but made him work even harder. He eventually helped build a modern China. Bosco Wong Chun-him, 17 St Joseph's College I admire Emperor Kangxi most. He was the most... https://www.scmp.com/article/549869/question-week-which-political-leader-do-you-admire-most?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/549869/question-week-which-political-leader-do-you-admire-most?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 May 2006 16:00:00 +0000 On April 27, 1911 (March 29 on the lunar calendar), the United League known as Tongmenhui launched an uprising in Guangzhou as part of the revolution to overthrow the Qing dynasty and set up the Republic of China. Sun Yat-sen led the failed uprising, with 70 bodies buried in Huanghua Gang. But later it was found that 86 martyrs were killed, including 30 overseas Chinese. Soon after the success of the revolution, the Nationalist - or Kuomintang - government decided to build a cemetery... https://www.scmp.com/article/494757/heroes-grave?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/494757/heroes-grave?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:00:00 +0000 The run-up to Taiwan's Double Tenth Day - commemorating the start of the 1911 uprising that led to the founding of the Republic of China - sees intense activity around the Presidential Offices, site of the grand march-past and flag-fluttering display on the day itself. At night, wide phalanxes of identical motorcyclists escort black limousines with darkened windows in circuits round the presidential block. By day, you might encounter columns of uniformed schoolchildren, or dancers in Aboriginal... https://www.scmp.com/article/473184/precision-double?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/473184/precision-double?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:00:00 +0000 IN THE AUTUMN of 1949, hundreds of thousands of people were pressing down through Guangdong, desperate to enter Hong Kong. Walking against that flow of humanity, Frances Wong Sing and Li Zhao-xin tramped in the other direction. The young idealists didn't know it, but the seven-day trek from the border to Guangzhou was a journey taking them not only into the promise of a rejuvenated nation, but into peril. Wong was one of the true believers who left Hong Kong in 1949 to answer Mao Zedong's... https://www.scmp.com/article/472475/broken-dreams?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/472475/broken-dreams?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:00:00 +0000 China is taking a multi-pronged approach to developing human resources, which is crucial to the country's socio-economic development, Zhang Xuezhong, the mainland's Minister of Personnel Development, told the Apec High Level Meeting on Human Capacity Building co-hosted by China and Brunei. Mr Zhang and Abdul Rahman Taib, the Minister of Industry and Primary Resources of Brunei, chaired the meeting. While much progress has been made in human resource development, China still fell short in... https://www.scmp.com/article/348313/chinas-initiatives-serve-socio-economic-objectives?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/348313/chinas-initiatives-serve-socio-economic-objectives?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 27 May 2001 16:00:00 +0000 A pro-Taiwan trade union council will put Hong Kong's legal autonomy to the test by displaying two Taiwan national flags at its Double Tenth Festival celebration in Mongkok on Friday. Speaking after an executive committee meeting last night, Lee Kwok-keung of the 28,000-strong Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council said he thought the display of Taiwan's national flag would be acceptable to the SAR Government as Hong Kong was under the 'one country, two systems' model. The SAR... https://www.scmp.com/article/214163/taiwan-flags-test-legal-system?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/214163/taiwan-flags-test-legal-system?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 05 Oct 1997 16:00:00 +0000 CHINA has warned of new difficulties in Sino-British relations following a Hong Kong Government decision not to block a pro-Taiwan group from holding a Double Tenth show in an Urban Council centre yesterday. A strongly worded statement was issued by the Foreign Ministry just hours after the Chinese Cultural Association (CCA) held celebrations of Taiwan's National Day at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. Unlike similar events in the past, Taiwan's flag was not seen inside or outside the... https://www.scmp.com/article/91738/beijing-warns-ties-double-tenth-row?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/91738/beijing-warns-ties-double-tenth-row?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Oct 1994 16:00:00 +0000 CELEBRATION of Taiwan's National Day should be illegal in Hong Kong after 1997, a senior Chinese official said yesterday. Both public and private celebrations of the Double Tenth festival should be banned, said Xinhua (New China News Agency) official Weng Xinqiao. 'When we say 'one country, two systems', we do not mean only the adopting of two different social systems [in the mainland and Hong Kong], but we also mean the upholding of the one country principle,' the Hong Kong-based... https://www.scmp.com/article/91573/outcry-over-mainland-officials-stand-national-day-events-after-1997?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/91573/outcry-over-mainland-officials-stand-national-day-events-after-1997?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 09 Oct 1994 16:00:00 +0000