Whampoa Military Academy
Reconstructed Republican-era military campus where nationalist and communist officers trained side by side before the civil war.
This guide to Whampoa Military Academy in Guangzhou opens on June 16, 1924, when Sun Yat-sen addressed the cadets he had gathered on Changzhou Island after decades of failed attempts to unite China through politics alone. It follows the two men he put in charge of his new army, commandant Chiang Kai-shek and political officer Zhou Enlai, fresh from studying revolution in France, as they drilled nationalist and communist cadets side by side, fed and funded by Soviet advisers. You'll walk through the reconstructed headquarters, past Sun's residence and the cadets' spare dormitories, where those shared barracks once housed men on both sides of a divide still to come.
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