The Distinctive Contribution Of Malaya Chinese To The 1911 Revolution

Malaya Chinese is a significant force to support the 1911 revolution. With the great commitment and enthusiasm to the revolution, the Chinese community in Malaya took over a big amount of specific and difficult tasks and provided strong supports to Sun Yat-sen and his Tung Meng Hui.The Malaya Chinese made a long lasting human & material resources contribution, even at all cost of their lives and family savings to expand revolutionary organizations, advocate revolutionary ideas, donate for revolutionary activities and support lives of mainland colleges who escaped into Malaya. They even donate themselves into the series armed struggles.Without the supports for the Malaya Chinese, the process of the 1911 Revolution will be more long and tortuous, the success of the revolution may even be at risk. They are unsung heroes and made irreplaceable contribution.This paper attempts to collect and sort out the unique historical role played by Malaya Chinese through the main contents as follow:1. Financial support from Malaya Chinese.2. Penang Chinese Community's special contribution.3. Malaya Chinese against the separatist forces in Tung Meng Hui.4. Malaya Chinese sacrifice themselves for the revolution.5. The spread of nationalism in Malaya.6. Objective condition of Malaya Chinese to play history role.