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Roasted ChickenHow Dr Sun got his revolutionary ideas (part1)
At the tender age of 11, Sun loved to stand under the huge fig tree outside
his home to listen to stories about the Taiping rebellion. Impressions
of a decadent Qing government and the peasant revolt were strongly etched in his mind.
In 1879, the thirteen-year-old Sun Yat Sen and his mother sailed to Honolulu,
Hawaii to join his brother Sun Mei. They travelled in a 2000-ton
British steamship named, S.S. Grannock. On the deck of the ship,
Sun gazed out to the wide expanse of the ocean and thought,
"For the first time I have witnessed such wonders -
that of a metal steamship travelling on the vast sea;
I must learn such technology to unravel the mysteries of heaven and earth
(astronomy and geography)". Since then, Sun became conscious of the
power of machines and the advanced level of science and
technology developed by the West.
