Former Residence of Sun Yat-Sen
European-style villa where a revolutionary leader lived, wrote, and held pivotal political talks.
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This guide to the Former Residence of Sun Yat-sen in Shanghai's French Concession follows the revolutionary leader after he toppled two thousand years of imperial rule but still had no house of his own, until overseas supporters in Canada pooled money to buy him this villa outright. You'll hear how he and his wife, Soong Ching-ling, used the desk here to write his political testament and to sit down with representatives of the newly formed Communist Party. Stand by the fireplace where those talks are said to have taken place.
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