Sun Yatsen, Robert Wilcox and Their Failed Revolutions, Honolulu and Canton 18952021

"Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer is the radical, explosive retelling of the first decade of the "Father of Modern China" Dr Sun Yatsen's globally-shaped formation as a professional revolutionist, and of the impact of the adult Sun's revolutionary relationship with Hawaiʻi and with his varied communities of supporters there during its own most turbulent political decade, the 1890s, years in which this remote island nation transformed from native monarchy, via sovereign independent republic, to become the USA's first overseas territory. Drawn from neglected primary sources, Dynamite reveals the hitherto untold story of the secret revolutionary alliance forged in Honolulu's backstreets between Sun's Xingzhonghui and the idiosyncratic italophile soldier Robert Wilcox, "Hawaiʻi's Garibaldi"...