Hawaiian Chinese News Explained

Hawaiian Chinese News
Foundation:1881[1]
Ceased Publication:1907
Headquarters:Honolulu
Oclc:13178514

The Hawaiian Chinese News[2], also known as New Honolulu Journal,[3] Tan Shan Hsin Pao,[4] Lung Kee Sun Bo, [5] was a Chinese language commercial newspaper in Honolulu, USA. It was founded by Cheng Weinan in 1881, initially called the Lung Chi Pao (隆記報),[6] renamed Tan Shan Hsin Pao (檀山新報) in 1903.[7]

The earliest known preserved issue of the Hawaiian Chinese News, with the date of April 13, 1889, contains a report on the political situation in Samoa.[8] It was the first Chinese language newspaper in Honolulu.[9]

Hawaiian Chinese News was the voice of Sun Yat-sen and his revolutionary party.[10] In 1907, the newspaper ceased publication.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Book: The Hawaiian Journal of History. 1984. Hawaiian Historical Society.
  2. Book: Patrick Anderson. Sun Yatsen, Robert Wilcox and Their Failed Revolutions, Honolulu and Canton 1895: Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer. 28 June 2021. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-00-039624-9. 430–.
  3. Book: Marie-Claire Bergère. Janet Lloyd. Sun Yat-sen. 1998. Stanford University Press. 978-0-8047-4011-1. 476–.
  4. Book: Helen Geracimos Chapin. Shaping History: The Role of Newspapers in Hawaii. 1 July 1996. University of Hawaii Press. 978-0-8248-1718-3. 105–.
  5. Book: Bob Dye. Merchant Prince of the Sandalwood Mountains: Afong and the Chinese in Hawai?i. 1 January 1997. University of Hawaii Press. 978-0-8248-1772-5. 197–.
  6. Book: Liu Jialin. General History of Chinese Journalism. 2005. Wuhan University Press. 978-7-307-04606-1.
  7. Book: Tan Tianxing. Shen Lixin. History of Overseas Chinese Culture. 1998. Shanghai People's Publishing House. 978-7-208-02353-6.
  8. Book: Lorenz Gonschor. A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania. 30 June 2019. University of Hawaii Press. 978-0-8248-8001-9. 205–.
  9. Book: Clarence Elmer Glick. Sojourners and Settlers, Chinese Migrants in Hawaii. 1980. University Press of Hawaii. 978-0-8248-0707-8.
  10. Book: Myron Echenberg. Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901. April 2010. NYU Press. 978-0-8147-2233-6. 207–.
  11. Web site: Hawaiian Chinese News (Honolulu, H.I.) 1883-1907 . The Library of Congress. 2021-07-10.