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836 Stockton - tianyu fang

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I’ve been living in San Francisco since June. On my commute from the Marina to the Financial District, my bus drives through Chinatown. There’s a building on Stockton St with a Republic of China banner on top, alongside a portrait of Sun Yat-sen, the Chinese

I’ve been living in San Francisco since June. On my commute from the Marina to the Financial District, my bus drives through Chinatown. There’s a building on Stockton St with a Republic of China banner on top, alongside a portrait of Sun Yat-sen, the Chinese parens patriae; this is the US headquarters of the Kuomintang, or the Chinese Nationalist Party. The Kuomintang US Headquarters. 836 Stockton St, San Francisco, CA. At the beginning of the 20th century, Sun built a network of revolutionaries in places like Tokyo, Hong Kong, Hawaii, and California — under his leadership, the Kuomintang…

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