A report on Chinese gunboat Zhongshan, Chiang Kai-shek and Wuhan

Panlongcheng, located in the southernmost area of the Erligang culture

Salvaging of SS Zhongshan. (A model in the Zhongshan Warship Museum)

Zhongshan Warship Museum {{nowrap|(:zh:中山舰博物馆)}} in Wuhan

Sun Yat-sen and Chiang at the 1924 opening ceremonies for the Soviet-funded Whampoa Military Academy

The restored Zhongshan inside the museum

Foreign concessions along the Hankow Bund c. 1900.

Chiang (right) together with Wang Jingwei (left), 1926

Wuchang Uprising Memorial, the original site of revolutionary government in 1911

Damage the ship sustained during her sinking

Chiang during a visit to an air force base in 1945

A map of Wuhan painted by the Japanese in 1930, with Hankou being the most prosperous sector

Chiang and Soong on the cover of Time magazine, 26 October 1931

Nationalist government of Nanking – nominally ruling over entire China in 1930s

Chiang Kai-Shek inspecting Chinese soldiers in Wuhan as Japanese forces approach the city

After the breakout of the Second Sino-Japanese War, The Young Companion featured Chiang on its cover.

People's Liberation Army troops at Zhongshan Avenue, Hankou on May 16, 1949

Chiang with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in Cairo, Egypt, November 1943

In his poem "Swimming" (1956), engraved on the 1954 Flood Memorial in Wuhan, Mao Zedong envisions "walls of stone" to be erected upstream.

Chiang and his wife Soong Mei-ling sharing a laugh with U.S. Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell, Burma, April 1942

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Map including the Wuhan area (AMS, 1953)

Chiang with South Korean President Syngman Rhee in 1949

Map of the Chinese Civil War (1946–1950)

The main gate of Wuhan Municipal Party Committee

Chiang with Japanese politician Nobusuke Kishi, in 1957

A night sight near a modern shopping mall in Hongshan District

Chiang presiding over the 1966 Double Ten celebrations

A tram in University Science Park Station

Chiang with U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in June 1960

The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a famous monument, landmark, and tourist attraction in Taipei, Taiwan.

Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng, made in 433 BC, now on display at the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan

Chinese propaganda poster proclaiming "Long Live the President"

The old library (center), dorm (below), and schools of literature and law (left and right) of Wuhan University

The Institute for Advanced Studies at Wuhan University

Chiang Kai-shek and Winston Churchill heads, with Nationalist China flag and Union Jack

Statue of Chiang Kai-shek in Yangmingshan National Park, Taiwan

Doupi on the left and Re-gan mian on the right

Chiang Kai-shek with the Muslim General Ma Fushou

Chiang Kai-shek as Knight of the Royal Order of the Seraphim

Mao Fumei (毛福梅, 1882–1939), who died in the Second Sino-Japanese War during a bombardment, is the mother of his son and successor Chiang Ching-kuo

Li Na, a former professional tennis player and two-time Grand Slam champion, serving at Wimbledon 2008, 1st round against Anastasia Rodionova

Yao Yecheng (姚冶誠, 1889–1972), who came to Taiwan and died in Taipei

Chen Jieru (陳潔如, "Jennie", 1906–1971), who lived in Shanghai, but moved to Hong Kong later and died there

Soong Mei-ling (宋美齡, 1898–2003), who moved to the United States after Chiang Kai-shek's death, is arguably his most famous wife even though they had no children together

Zhongshan was sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War, but was later raised and restored as a museum ship in Wuhan.

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From there, he transferred to the SS Yongfeng, where he was joined by Chiang Kai-shek around the 27th or 29th.

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They met on the SS Yongfeng, where Chiang joined them as swiftly as he could return from Shanghai, where he was ritually mourning his mother's death.

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The split was partially motivated by the purge of the Communists within the party, which marked the end of the First United Front, and Chiang Kai-shek briefly stepped down as the commander of the National Revolutionary Army.

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The NRA branched into three divisions: to the west was the returned Wang Jingwei, who led a column to take Wuhan; Bai Chongxi's column went east to take Shanghai; Chiang himself led in the middle route, planning to take Nanjing before pressing ahead to capture Beijing.

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On October 24, while overseeing the waters of the Yangtze River near the town of Jinkou (Jiangxia District in Wuhan) in Wuchang, the KMT gunboat Zhongshan came up against six Japanese aircraft.

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Chinese statesman, physician, and political philosopher, who served as the first provisional president of the Republic of China and the first leader of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party of China).

Sun Yat-sen (back row, fourth from right) and his family

Sun (second from left) and his friends the Four Bandits: Yeung Hok-ling (left), Chan Siu-bak (middle), Yau Lit (right), and Guan Jingliang (關景良, standing) at the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, circa 1888

Plaque in London marking the site of a house at 4 Warwick Court, WC1 where Sun Yat-sen lived while in exile

Letter from Sun Yat-sen to James Cantlie announcing to him that he has assumed the Presidency of the Provisional Republican Government of China, dated 21 January 1912

A letter with Sun's seal commencing the Tongmenghui in Hong Kong

Interior of the Wan Qing Yuan featuring Sun's items and photos

The Sun Yat-sen Museum in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, where he planned the Xinhai Revolution.

The Revolutionary Army of the Wuchang uprising fighting in the Battle of Yangxia

"Portrait of Sun Yat-sen" (1921) Li Tiefu Oil on Canvas 93×71.7cm

(L-R): Liao Zhongkai, Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching-ling at the founding of the Whampoa Military Academy in 1924

Sun Yat-sen (seated) and Chiang Kai-shek

Sun (seated, right) and his wife Soong Ching-ling (seated next to him) in Kobe, Japan in 1924

Chinese generals at the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in 1928 after the Northern Expedition. From right: Cheng Jin (何成浚), Zhang Zuobao (張作寶), Chen Diaoyuan (陳調元), Chiang Kai-shek, Woo Tsin-hang, Yan Xishan, Ma Fuxiang, Ma Sida (馬四達), and Bai Chongxi.

Statue in the Mausoleum, Kuomintang flag on the ceiling

Lu Muzhen (1867–1952), Sun's first wife from 1885 to 1915

Aerial perspective of Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall in central Singapore. Taken in 2016

Sun Yat-Sen monument in Chinatown area of Los Angeles, California

Sun Yat-Sen plaza in the Chinese Quarter of Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Sun Yat-sen tribute in Tiananmen Square, 2010

Sun Yat-sen Memorial Centre, George Town, Penang, Malaysia

A marker on the Sun Yat-sen Historical Trail on Hong Kong Island

He did not live to see his party unify the country under his successor, Chiang Kai-shek, in the Northern Expedition.

Between 1912 and 1927 three governments were set up in South China: the Provisional government in Nanjing (1912), the Military government in Guangzhou (1921–1925), and the National government in Guangzhou and later Wuhan (1925–1927).

Two ships are also named after him, the Chinese gunboat Chung Shan and Chinese cruiser Yat Sen.