Beijing Rd Cultural Tourism Zone

The guide to the Beijing Rd Cultural Tourism Zone in Guangzhou begins in nineteen thirty-one, when Hu Hanmin, once a leader of the revolution that founded modern China, was locked inside his own house in Nanjing by his former ally Chiang Kai-shek. It follows Hu south to this very street, where he set up a rival government aimed at the man who had jailed him, and traces what happened to his name on this road after his death in nineteen thirty-six. Along the way it counts through the dynasties whose rulers left their own marks on this ground, from the Qin founding of the city onward. Stand where the crowds pass and consider how many governments have claimed this stretch of pavement.