Sun Yat-sen Founded a Military Academy Here
· 1924-6
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Sun Yat-sen Founded a Military Academy Here
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On June 16, 1924, Sun Yat-sen opened the Whampoa Military Academy on Changzhou Island in the Pearl River, with Chiang Kai-shek as its first commandant and Liao Zhongkai as party representative. Soviet money and advisors kept it running, and Soong Ching-ling sat beside Sun on the ceremony platform.
The school existed because of a hard lesson. For a decade Sun had borrowed other men's armies, and in 1922 one of those armies turned its guns on him.
At 57, he stopped renting loyalty and started training it: junior officers drilled in tactics and in his Three Principles of the People, with political instruction later run by a young Zhou Enlai.
The address Sun gave at the opening became the lyrics of the Republic of China's national anthem. Whampoa graduates led the Northern Expedition that unified China, and by 1937 commanded most of the divisions resisting Japan, on both sides of the later civil war.
In 10,000 Hours of Play terms, this is the stage where a master stops grinding alone and builds a guild. Sun had logged his hours through ten failed uprisings; Whampoa let a whole generation inherit them.
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