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Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Former Residence

Dr. Sun Yat-sen's former residence in Shanghai is located at 7 Xiangshan Road. It is a peaceful and secluded garden residence constructed under European style. Sun resided here from 1918 to 1925, together with his wife Soong Ching Ling. The building of the Former Residence was donated by overseas Chinese in Canada in support of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen was a great forerunner of modern Chinese democratic revolution. During his residence, Sun produced many important works, including The Doctrines of Sun Wen and the International Development of China, met with the representatives of Chinese Communist Party and Soviet Russia, set out to reorganize the the Nationalist Party, conceived a plan for an alliance with the Chinese Communists. And in November 1924, Sun held a press conference here and called people to reunite the nation peacefully.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen's former residence is a small two-story building. The sitting room and the dining room are on the ground floor. Upstairs are the study, the bedroom and a small sitting room.

The photo on the wall of the sitting room was taken when he was the provisional great president. The calligraphy, paintings by famous artists and ivory carving were presented to him by his friends.

In the study and in the corridor on the second floor is kept a collection of 2,7000 volumes of books in Chinese and foreign languages with subjects on politics, economics, military affairs, history, geography, laws and so on. It is in this study Dr. Sun Yat-sen, interviewed Li Dazhao and Ling Boqu, who were representatives of the Communist arty of China, to discuss the possibility of cooperation between the Chinese Nationalist Party and the Communist Party of China, and the reorganization of the Nationalist Party On August, 1922.s

On March 4, 1961, the State Council ruled that the former residence of Dr. Sun Yat-sen be made one of the key national cultural relics under the protection of the government.Now the residence has became an important place for people both at home and abroad to come and pay their respects to Dr. Sun Yat-sen.