Sun Yat-sen Was Kidnapped in This Building
· 1896-10 (circa)
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Sun Yat-sen Was Kidnapped in This Building
yudashkai
In "10,000 Hours of Play," Sun Yat-sen's relationship with his professor James Cantlie demonstrates the power of Step 5: Build Your Alliances. Cantlie didn't just teach Sun surgery in Hong Kong — he literally saved his life when the hero was backed into a corner.
On October 11, 1896, Sun was walking near Portland Place in London when Qing agents grabbed him off the street and dragged him into the Chinese legation at 49 Portland Place. They planned to ship him back to China for execution.
Sun managed to smuggle a note to his old professor Cantlie. What followed was a 12-day international crisis.
Cantlie went to Scotland Yard, the Foreign Office, and — when The Times refused to cover the story — to The Globe newspaper. The headline "The Kidnapping Case" caused public outrage.
Prime Minister Lord Salisbury issued an ultimatum to the Chinese legation, and Sun was released on October 23, 1896.
The kidnapping backfired spectacularly. Sun went from an unknown exile to a globally recognized revolutionary overnight.
He later wrote a book about it: "Kidnapped in London."
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