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Abstract Why did Sun Yatsen become a revolutionary? This talk tries to answer this "macro" question by asking several "micro" questions: Was Sun Yatsen Hakka or Cantonese? Was he of noble descent? Was Sun Yatsen a WOG (Westernised Oriental Gentleman)? What did four years of Anglo-American education do to him? It did cross his mind that he might become a missionary; in the end, why not? Did he ever study at the Diocesan Home? How did Dr James Cantlie influence his determination to modernize China? While practising medicine at Macao, was revolution his primary aim? Why did the 1895 Canton uprising collapse even before it started? Did Sun Yatsen escape from Canton by being lowered from the city wall in a basket? After fleeing back to Hong Kong, was he ever a guest of Her Majesty in Victoria Gaol? John Y. Wong is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and Chair Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney. His English publications include Yeh Ming-ch’en: Viceroy of Liang-Kuang, 1852-1858 (Cambridge University Press, 1976); Anglo-Chinese Relations, 1839-1860 (Oxford University Press, 1983); The Origins of An Heroic Image: Sun Yatsen in London, 1896-1897 (Oxford University Press, 1986); Deadly Dreams: Opium, Imperialism and the ‘Arrow’ War (1856-60) in China (Cambridge University Press, 1998). His Chinese publications include 《 兩次鴉片戰爭與香港的割讓: 史實和史料 》(臺北: 國史館, 1998 年); 《孫逸仙倫敦蒙難真相: 從未披露的史實》(臺北: 聯經出版事業公司 , 1998); 《中山先生與英國, 1883-1925》臺北: 學生書局, 2005);《孫逸仙在倫敦: 三民主義思想探源》 (臺北: 聯經, 2007年);《三十歲前的孫中山: 翠亨、檀島、香港》（香港: 中華書局, 2011).
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