Page "Sun Yat-sen" Paragraph 22

According to Lee Yun-ping, chairman of the Chinese historical society, Sun needed a certificate to enter the United States at a time when the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 would have otherwise blocked him.

But on Sun's first attempt to enter the US, he was still arrested.

He was later bailed out after 17 days.

In March 1904, while residing in Kula, Maui, Sun Yat-sen obtained a Certificate of Hawaiian Birth, issued by the Territory of Hawaii, stating that " he was born in the Hawaiian Islands on the 24th day of November, A. D.

1870.

" Official files of the United States show that Sun had United States nationality, moved to China with his family at age 4, and returned to Hawaii 10 years later.