孙中山大元帅府纪念馆

This guide to Sun Yat-sen's Marshal's Mansion in Guangzhou opens on the twelfth of March nineteen twenty-five, as news of Sun Yat-sen's death reaches his staff still at work in a converted cement factory on the Pearl River. It follows his repeated, repeatedly ended attempts to build a republican government on this spot, from nineteen seventeen through his return in nineteen twenty-three, and the army and party reorganization ordered from these rooms. An Australian architect, Arthur Purnell, folded Chinese tile roofs onto a frame built for grinding cement, not governing a nation.