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The presidential office of the late Kuomintang leader
Chiang Kai-shek in east China's Nanjing will be turned into a museum
of modern history.
The provincial people's political consultative
conference, which has used the major halls of the building as offices
since the founding of new China in 1949, will move out to make way
for the reconstruction of the museum.
Chiang abandoned his office, situated in downtown
Nanjing, before he fled to Taiwan more than half a century ago after
the then Kuomintang government failed in the civil war.
For the past half century, the office has housed
a treasure trove of historically valuable items. It served as the
office of the governors of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 AD), and later was made the palace for the
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom during the Qing Dynasty that seized almost
half of China at the height of its power.
??People's Daily 01/09/01??
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