As far as I know, Sun Yat-Sen wasn't really active in Anhui, HeFei for his revolution work. So linking him to AnHui could be a little forced. But let's attempt the Kevin Bacon game here:
The Qing dynasty premier during the turn of the century (the previous century, that is) was one Li Hong-Zhang. He has his family home in AnHui. He did attempt so modernization of the country, westernizing its navy, medical services, and others. Earlier in his career, Sun probably thinks that the reformation of the country may comes from within the Qing court. The link between the two men was that Sun, at least on one occasion, wrote an open letter to Lee about this possibility. Well, things didn't work out: Sun went down the revolution path, and Lee's employer eventually went bust.
If this sounds forced, let's try a 6th degree of seperation between Guangzhou and AnHui:1st degree: One of the beachhead of Christian missionaries in feudal China was Guangzhou, where they establish western clinic to attract the Chinese to their faith;
2nd degree: Before becoming the father of his nation, Sun Yat-Sen was a medical doctor, the western variety;
3rd degree: He started a revolution and the battle in WuChang toppled the Qing dynasty and he was the first temporary prime minister of the newly-minted republic;
4th degree: Once the republic was formed, the nationalist government wasted no time in bringing in western idea and ways of running things: parliament, constitution, army, etc, etc;5th degree: It wasn't long before they decided that this 'un-scientific' Tradition Chinese Medicine needed a little looking into. It wasn't long before western medicine and TCM was on a collision course of ideological proportion.
6th degree: Almost a century later, China is growing strong (so I heard), TCM is in resurgent, and I was in AnHui, for a week's attachment at the AnHui TCM hospital. So there.
The design of the WuHan station is inspired by the yellow crane, symbol of Wuhan City. The roof is like the wings of the bird spreaded out in full flight. Unfortunately, someone decides to build an elevated road right at its doorsteps, and it looks like this crane is going nowhere.
You will be forgiven to think that this is a airport departure hall.
Crossing the Yangtze.
HeFei station looks as modern as the WuHan one, with similar design for their platforms. But if you look carefully, you can see that the HeFei platform is actually new structure built right over the old structure. Pretty ingenious if you ask me.
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