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‘A Hawaiian son’: Honolulu honours Sun Yat-sen as his landmarks vanish

South China Morning PostPeople's Republic of China

‘A Hawaiian son’: Honolulu honours Sun Yat-sen as his landmarks vanish

Eddie Flores pressed the button at a pedestrian crossing on King Street, then pointed across the road. In the spring of 1910, Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen lodged over there, on the second floor of a shop owned by a friend and fellow party member. “It’s no longer there,” said Flores, chairman of the restaurant chain L&L Hawaiian Barbecue. “But we can more or less point out where the building is.” Much of Sun’s Honolulu has to be found this way. The church where he worshipped as a boy was...

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