This old building is one of the oldest in Chinatown. The view in the back alley shows the old manual cargo elevator.

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A charming sign from another era.

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A classic old Chinatown restaurant with Cantonese food. That building really could be in downtown Shanghai around 1900.

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This statue is dedicated to the memory of the founder of modern China. Dr Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925) was the revolutionary and political statesman who played a key role in the revolution of 1911 which united a country divided by warlord fiefdoms and colonial influences.

Sun was educated in Honolulu and returned to his homeland in 1883. During his time in Hawaii he became very strongly under the sway of Christianity. In 1884 he was converted and baptised in a church in Hong Kong. During this time he trained as a medical doctor.

The path to the formation of the provisional government of the Republic of China is a complicated one which we won't go into here. But whilst leading the Kuomintang (KMT) revolutionaries. he invited the Chinese Communist Party into the fold, a decision which the KMT was later to greatly regret, especially after the CCP was so instrumental in pushing back against the Japanese invasion prior to WW2 and gaining momentum towards seizing absolute control of what became the People's Republic of China.
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Dr Sun Yat-Sen is revered by both the Republic of China on Taiwan (the government led by Chiang Kai-shek that fled into exile after the rise of Mao's communists), and in the People's Republic. In 1925 he died from complications to cancer.

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The lion is a significant creature in Chinese folk lore. Guardian lions, like this one, are usually found at the gates of cities or palaces. In this case it stands in front of the square that is dedicated to the founder of modern China, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, and the museum which features the cultural influences of Chinese people on Melbourne's history.

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