Peasant Movement Training Institute at Guangzhou, Former revolutionary training center in Guangzhou, China
The Peasant Movement Training Institute is a converted 14th-century Confucian temple building located in central Guangzhou's historic district. The building contains recreated classrooms, dormitories, and exhibition halls that show how students lived and studied during their time there.
The institute was founded in 1923 and operated as a training center for peasant leaders until 1926 under the First United Front. Mao Zedong taught the final group of students before the institution closed its doors.
The institute demonstrates how peasant communities were organized and mobilized during a transformative period in the 1920s. Visitors can see through exhibits how these movements shaped thinking about land and social structures in early modern China.
Visitors can walk through the rooms and classrooms to understand how instruction took place and how students lived on site. It helps to spend time viewing the exhibitions and documents to gain a fuller sense of the daily activities that occurred there.
The building was originally not designed as a school but was repurposed from a religious sanctuary, showing how revolutionary movements adapted existing spaces for their goals. This transformation reveals how the movement used what was available to reach new audiences and convey its message.
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