Guangzhou Ah thanks for the info, I've never taken any Chinese history, so I'm still learning about the important people, places etc. I've passed by "the former residence of Sun Yat-sen" in Shanghai which is why I assumed he lived here, but it sounds like he was important enough that they would want to keep whatever he left behind.... and I think the tourists might like me because I'm 5'11, they tend to check my feet out when they see how tall I am, not sure if they're looking for heels or if they just want to see how big my feet are.
Guangzhou I love reading blogs in China. Just a little information that may interest you -- Sun Yatsen was not a communist. He was a revoluntionist who led to overthrow the Qing dynasty and founded Republic of China. During that era, he co-founded Kuo-min-Tang party, and Communist party was founded separately. In 1949, the Communist defeated Kuo-Min-Tang and Kuo-Min-Tang retreated to Taiwan. Even today, both sides (mainland China and Taiwan) revere him. He did spend most of his time in Guangzhou and Hong Kong. I don't know if he was ever in Shanghai, but politically there wasn't much tie between him and Shanghai. He was born in a place near Guangzhou, which was renamed to his name (Zhong-Shan, his alias) after he died.
Regarding "tourists kept trying to take pictures" -- I think they think you are pretty rather than you are a foreigner. We didn't encounter such treatment in Guangzhou.
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Ah thanks for the info, I've never taken any Chinese history, so I'm still learning about the important people, places etc. I've passed by "the former residence of Sun Yat-sen" in Shanghai which is why I assumed he lived here, but it sounds like he was important enough that they would want to keep whatever he left behind.... and I think the tourists might like me because I'm 5'11, they tend to check my feet out when they see how tall I am, not sure if they're looking for heels or if they just want to see how big my feet are.