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In the Footsteps of Sun Yat Sen

 

Dr. Sun Yat Sen, leader of the 1911 Revolution that overthrew the Manchu Dynasty, was born in Cuiheng, a few kilometres north of Macau. After graduating as a doctor from Hong Kong's Queen's College in 1892, he moved to Macau where he took up his first post as doctor at the Kiang Wu Hospital

He rented rooms at 14 Largo do Senado (the building no longer exists) until he could afford to buy a house for his growing family (first wife, son and two daughters) on Rua de Silva Mendes

He wrote articles advocating reforms to help China's peasants and set up schools for the poor, which appeared in the Echo Macaense, whose editor Chico Fernandes was one of his champions.

Another was Lou Kau (a leading Chinese philanthropic businessman who built the Lou Lim Ieoc Garden and funded the Kiang Wu Hospital) who persuaded the hospital to loan Sun 2000 Patacas to set up the Sino-European Pharmacy on Rua das Estalagens (no longer standing, it served as a meeting place for Sun and his liberal friends)

Sun was also a frequent guest at Lou Lim Ieoc Garden

In 1894, Lou Kau heard that Manchu agents were planning to arrest Sun, so he was forced to flee, first to Canton, where he set up the revolutionary Revive China Society

He escaped to Macau where he stayed briefly before boarding a ship for Honolulu

Sun never returned to Macau, but his family remained

In 1928, an ammunition depot explosion destroyed their house and they decided to build the Memorial Home of Dr. Sun Yat Sen on the same site

Designed in mock-moorish style, with a statue of Sun in the courtyard, it contains his books, letters, photos and old newspaper accounts of his life, together with mementos from his Macanese friends. The home is open 10am-5pm, closed on Tuesday.

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