Portraying Sun Yat-sen in The Chinese Times

A Trans-local Perspective

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.no216.197457

Keywords:

chinese, diaspora, newspapers

Abstract

Portraying Sun Yat-sen in The Chinese Times: A Trans-local Perspective

Abstract

Sun Yat-sen visited Canada several times over the period of a decade at the turn of the twentieth century to seek financial support for his revolution to overthrow the Qing government and build a republic. The years of China’s new nation-building shortly before and after 1911 witnessed a honeymoon relationship turning to a bitter end between Sun and the Chee Kung Tong (hereafter CKT) in Canada, the strongest financial supporter abroad of Sun’s revolution. This paper examines the narratives The Chinese Times offers on the affiliation between Sun Yat-sen and the CKT, focusing on how the newspaper portrayed and conveyed the CKT’s view of Sun Yat-sen from its local perspective in the transnational context. It reviews how The Chinese Times served as a platform for public opinion and medium in the transnational media sphere while acting as the mouthpiece of the CKT.

Key words: Sun Yat-sen, The Chinese Times, Chee Kung Tong, Xinhai Revolution, trans-local

Author Biographies

Xueqing Xu, York University

Xueqing Xu, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University. Her research is centred on Chinese

Dr. Hua Laura Wu, Huron University College

Hua Laura Wu studied comparative literature and Chinese literature at the University of Toronto, where she earned her PhD degree. She is now professor emerita at Huron University College in London, Ontario. Her current research interest is the Chinese diaspora in Canada and Chinese Canadian literature and media.

 

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Published

2023-03-23

Issue

No. 216: Winter 2022/23

Section

Articles