Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center. Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Chinese nation, whose letter extolling Zionism was recently discovered in 2021 at The National Library of Israel (Courtesy The National Library of Israel) A century-old letter supporting Zionism, from pre-communism Chinese leader Dr. Sun Yat-sen, recently surfaced at the National Library of Israel. Known as the father of the Chinese nation, Sun called Zionism “one of the greatest movements of the present time.” Sun’s words were written in a 1920 letter he sent to N.E.B. Ezra, a prominent Shanghai Zionist publisher and author.