China Stamp: 5c Chinese Resistance die proof, 1942

National Postal Museum
February 7, 2014
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5c Chinese Resistance die proof, 1942
National Postal Museum

Sun Yat-sen, founding father of the Republic of China, appears with Abraham Lincoln on a 1942 stamp. Sun Yat-sen studied and lived abroad. His Three Principles (nationalism, democracy, and people's livelihood) reflect a concept he admired from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "of the people, by the people, and for the people." (Loan courtesy United States Postal Service, Postmaster General’s Collection)