🇹🇼 Stamps published in the Republic of China (Taiwan) in 1959 to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The stamps show Lincoln alongside Sun Yat-sen, the founding father and first president of the Republic of China. 
The two leaders had previously featured alongside each other on stamps published in the US, particularly during the Second World War.
Sun Yat-sen was born in China in 1866, under the Qing Dynasty which he would help to overthrow in 1911 during the Xinhai Revolution. He earned a reputation as a nationalist and found inspiration in Lincoln.
Having spent his youth studying in the US, he began to find inspiration in Abraham Lincoln, whose influence was reflected in Sun’s philosophy of the ‘Three Principles of the People’. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Pri….
Sun was and remains a revered figure in the national histories of both Chinas, the PRC and ROC.
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