The mausoleum and museum of Dr Sun Yat Sen is an important site in Nanijng, which we had time for before we bussed back to Shanghai. He was perhaps the most important leader to overthrow the Qing dynasty in 1911, which ushered in modern China. His dream was to build a modern and unified China. He is considered the father of modern China, if it has one. He died in the 1920's of liver cancer and never saw his dream of a unified China. At his death China had several factions competing for ideas and power to lead the country, after 2100 years of imperial rule, for the most part. This continued until finally in about 1950 Mao Dse Tung unified the country (after some fighting) under a socialistic/communistic principals. So Dr Sun ended the imperial era, but Mao unified the country. The period between were pretty ugly times in China, filled with a lot of fighting, Japanese occupation and killing, empty stomachs, internal migrations, etc.
Group pic in front of Dr Sun Yat Sen's mausoleum
Statue of Dr Sun in the mausoleum
Portrait of Dr Sun
Statute of Dr Sun with Brad, Taylor, Andrew and Danny
The museum which contians the history of Dr Sun's life.
Lance and Rachel racing up steps.
The steps
Rachel peering through gate ... before the race
Carson doing a hand stand at the top of the steps.
Chinese lessons from an inscription of Dr Sun's life. You just can't look at these characters without trying to figure out what they mean!! Dr Herzberg would be so happy !
