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- Title: Founding of the Chinese Revolutionary League in America (Chinese Revolutionary League )
- Author : Chinese America: History and Perspectives
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 291 KB
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INTRODUCTION The Zhongguo Tongmenghui (Chinese Revolutionary League) (1) of San Francisco, California, was nominally founded in spring 1910. In reality this group had already been in existence since spring 1909, when it used the name Shao'nian Xueshe (Young China Association). Its stated objective was to explore the fields of learning, but in reality it was an embryonic organization of the Chinese Revolutionary League. At that time members of the Baohuangdang (Protect the Emperor Party) (2) still possessed some economic power in the Chinese community Mindful that we were still a fledgling organization, we felt that it would be inappropriate for us to challenge them on a grand scale. Hence we took the name of Young China Association to specifically target our efforts toward the youth, while allowing our power to grow to the point when we could openly identify ourselves as the Chinese Revolutionary League. The four central figures in this association were: Li Shi'nan (Lee See Nam), (3) Huang Boyao (Wong Bock You), (4) Li Wang (Lee Wong), and myself, who were all local and native-born and traced our ancestries to Xinning County (name changed to Taishan after the founding of the Republic). We were also members of the Native Sons of the Golden State (NSGS), (5) with Wong Bock You and me being officers. Because of this we saw each other practically every night at the NSGS clubroom, where we could exchange views if necessary or merely chat about how issues of concern to NSGS itself and to Chinese overseas could be traced to China's weak political standing that led to the deterioration in the status of the Chinese overseas, so Americans could discriminate against us indiscriminately. After a while we began discussing China's political issues--the question of continuing support for the monarchy or revolution. At that time the Baohuangdang was not just hoodwinking the Chinese, but they were blatantly against revolution. We calculated that the Baohuangdang had reached the end of the road, yet we were apprehensive that the new revolutionary forces had not taken root among the Chinese.