What happens
This episode of The Pacific Story, broadcast on March 12, 1944, traces the life of Sun Yat-sen, the Chinese revolutionary later remembered as the father of the Republic of China. As a medical student in Hong Kong he preaches revolution to his fellow students. After a failed uprising at Canton he flees, cuts off his queue in Japan and travels to America and England. In London he is seized by Chinese officials at the legation and held prisoner, and a letter smuggled out to his old teacher Dr. James Cantlie prompts a press outcry. Released, he resumes organizing the revolution, gathering funds and supporters across Asia, Europe and America.
Late nineteenth and early twentieth century China, Hong Kong, Japan, the United States and London, leading up to the 1911 revolution.
Characters: Sun Yat-sen, Dr. James Cantlie, Sir Halliday Macartney, Yung Wing
Listen for: The account of Sun Yat-sen's imprisonment in the Chinese Legation in London and his release after the press takes up his case.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.