1. Sun Mei financed Sun Yat-sen's early education and was an important financial contributor to the 1911 revolution.
10 Facts About Sun Mei
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Sun Mei was born into the Sun family on December 6,1854, as Sun Deming.
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Sun Mei left China for Hawaii in pursuit of economic opportunity in 1871, aged 17.
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When Sun first arrived in Hawaii, he worked as a rice merchant.
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When Sun Mei returned to China to look for a bride, he recruited over a hundred laborers to go with him to Hawaii to work in the sugar cane plantations.
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Sun Mei later ran the Kahului General Store and became a successful rancher.
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Money raised from overseas Chinese in Hawaii, including Sun Mei, was the main source of funding for the first Canton Uprising in 1894.
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Sun Mei eventually sold all of his properties and businesses in part to support his brother's revolution, and in part due to pressure caused by the new Hawaii Land Lease Ordinance of 1904.
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Sun Mei relocated to Hong Kong and further assisted his brother's revolutionary activities, which led to his expulsion from Hong Kong in 1910.
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Sun Mei retired to Macau, where he passed away on February 11,1915, from illness.