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Presidential Palace - Nanking | 中華民國總統府 · 南京

The Presidential Palace in the capital city of Nanking houses the Office of the President of the Republic of China.
The complex is significant in being the place where National Father Dr. Sun Yat-sen first took office as the Provisional [Grand] President of the Republic of China (中華民國臨時大總統) after the Hsinhai Revolution of 1911 A.D.
Today, the Presidential Palace continues this legacy and has become a national symbol of republicanism, political progress, and unceasing revolutionary spirit.

After the traitorous warlords were defeated and China was reunited by Chiang Kai-shek, from the 16th to the 35th Year of the Republic (1927-1946 A.D.), during the Period of Political Tutelage, the complex served as the de jure headquarters of the Nationalist Government of China.

The facade of the building during this time famously bore the words "National[ist] Government (國民政府)", a name by which the Chinese government would continue to be referred to as, even after its later retreat to Taipei.

During World War II, the building would fall into the hands of the invading Japanese and national traitors (漢奸) like Wang Ching-wei, who ran an illegitimate, pro-Japanese puppet/collaborationist government under the false guise of the Nationalist Government and later as the "Renewed Government", also illegitimate.

The real Nationalist Government of China had retreated to Chungking in the meantime and would return to Nanking upon Japanese surrender.

The promulgation of the Constitution of the Republic of China after the Second World War ended the Period of Political Tutelage and began the new era of Constitutionalism, in accordance to Dr. Sun's political theory.
The Chinese Republic emerged victorious in the war against Japanese aggression and was ready to usher into a new era of freedom, peace, and democracy. The building complex was renamed the Presidential Palace (總統府) to reflect this progress. This brings the exterior facade to its present form.

However, a large setback to national progress occurred when Communist Rebellion forced the Central Government to temporarily relocate to Taiwan and the Presidential Palace become vacant and converted to a "museum" by the Communist Rebels.
The building in Taipei used by the Office of the President in the meantime was the Presidential Building, the site of the former Governor-General built in Japanese Colonial style.

The Reunification during the 104th Year of the Republic re-established Nanking as the seat of the Central Government and the Office of the President found its home again after being temporarily based out of Taipei for many decades and the building was gradually restored to its former glory and resumed its rightful role as the seat of China's executive power.

Chung-hwa

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