The Former Residence of Sun Yat-sen
is at No. 7, Xiangshan Road, Luwan District in Shanhai City, where Mr. Sun
Yat-sen worked and spent his late years.
In 1918, Sun Yat-sen abdicated the position
of generalissimo, and left Guangdong Province for Shanghai City. In the late
1919, the overseas Chinese in Canada raised funds to buy the residence for Sun
Yat-sen. He moved to the residence in 1920, and wrote two books: Sun Wen's
Theory and The Industry Programme. In August 1922, he met with Li
Dazhao, Lin Boqu and Qu Qiubai, etc. On September 4 of the same year, a meeting
on the reorganization of Kuomintang was held on the lawn of the residence. Some
members of Communist Party were invited to attend the meeting. At the end of the
year he met with Adolf Joffe, an envoy from the USSR. On January 26, 2003, the
world-famous Sun Wen - Adolf Joffe Joint Declaration was
published.
The residence is a two-storeyed
western-style building, with a lawn and garden in front of it. The first floor
includes the living room and dining hall. The bedrooms and study are upstairs.
The furnishings in the rooms are as what they were like in 1956. In the process
of clearing up the residence, a batch of cultural relics that had been treasured
for 30 years were found. Among them, there is Sun Yat-sen's manuscript of
Fundamentals of National Reconstruction, the English manuscript of The
Industry Programme, the Map of China drawn by him, as well as over 100
photos that record Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary
activities.