Shanghai’s Sun Yat-sen Birthday Statue

By Tina Kanagaratnam | November 10th, 2023 | Greater Shanghai Plan, Sun Yat-sen | 0 Comment

On November 12 1933, grand birthday celebrations for Sun Yat-sen were underway in Shanghai. The birthday of the "father of the nation", whose 1911 revolution ended more than 2,000 years of imperial rule, had been celebrated since his death in 1925, and on this autumn day at the Greater Shanghai City Hall, a grand statue of ...