Sun Yat-sen may have been replaced by a plant here in Taiwan, but he's forever commemorated by the US Postal Service. Initechnology informs me that sandwiched right between stamps for F. Remington the artist with the brush and James Naismith the artist with the basketball is a United States stamp for Sun Yat-sen, issued on Oct 10, 1961.[China]
May the sun always shine. Of course in 1961 the US still had its embassy here, the ROC was in the UN, and Viet Nam was heating up. Anyone that can recommend a good, no-holds-barred biography of Sun Yat-sen?
ReplyDeleteI find this stamp very interesting and informative of the USAs changing position.
ReplyDeleteIt commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Republic of China--not People's Republic of China.
Yet within some ten years, USA would recognize the PRC, watch the ROC lose its seat in the UN. And by 1979 would change its embassy to be in Beijing.
Being on a postage stamp is not always good luck.