Administered by City and County of Honolulu Mayor's Office of Culture and the Arts 530 South King Street, Room 404 Honolulu Hawaii 96813
Located River Street Mall In front of Kuo Min Tang Society Building, Corner of North Beretonia Street and River Street Honolulu Hawaii
Date:
Dedicated Oct. 9, 1976
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Hawaii survey, 1993.
Image on file.
(On front, gilded:) DR. SUN YAT-SEN/1866-1925 (On back, artist's signature in Chinese characters) (Inscribed on proper right of base:) Record of the Bronze Statue of/Dr. Sun Yat-sen/Honolulu of the United States and Kaohsiung of the/Republic of China (ROC) established sister-city relations in 1962./Construction of the Hsing Chung Hui Memorial Hall of Kuomintang's/Honolulu Main Branch was completed on the 80th anniversary of/the Hsing Chung Hui (Society for Regenerating China). Wang Yu-yan/former mayor of Kaohsiung City, Sun Tu-chih, former director of kuo-/min tang's Kaohsiung City Branch proposed to donate a bronze/statue of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, to be put in front of the Hsiung Chung/Hui Memorial Hall in July, 1976. The statue was erected at the present/site in memory of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, founding father of the ROC,who/during his many overseas trips, made a great contribution to the establishment of Kuomintang for national revolution and to the pro-/motion of Sino-American cultural interflow. The statue was repaired/in November, 1984 for people to pay respects to Dr. Sun Yat-sen./Hsu Shui-ten, mayor of Kaohsiung City R.O.C./Chen Tien-mao, speaker of Kaohsiung City Council R.O.C./Wu Wan-lan, director of Kuomintang's Kaohsiung City Branch R.O.C./November 12, 1984 (Chinese text on remaining three sides of base) signed
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Summary:
Full-length standing figure of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with both arms extended from the elbows holding an open book at mid-chest level. He is wearing a long gown and a long-sleeved hip-length jacket with Chinese frog closures. He is also wearing pants that extend approximately 3 inches below the gown and thick-soled laced shoes.
