Sun Yat-sen University
Colonnaded early classroom hall on a riverside campus, funded a century ago by rival American and Chinese donors.
This guide to Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou starts at Martin Hall, funded around 1907 by a widow in Cincinnati who wanted her husband's name on a building on the other side of the world, and at Swasey Hall, paid for by a Cleveland machine-tool magnate. It follows Chinese president Zhong Rongguang, who decided in 1909 that whoever pays owns the school and sailed through overseas Chinese communities across the Americas asking laundry owners and grocers for a few dollars a year. You'll hear how that campaign grew into a society spanning thirty-six cities. Look for Martin Hall's long colonnade facing the river as you walk the lawn between the two halls.
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