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Yunnan Military Academy 云南陆军讲武堂Yúnnán Lùjūn Jiǎngwǔtáng
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Kunming, Yunnan
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Kunming
- Region
- Yunnan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Yunnan Military Academy
The former campus of a military academy founded in Kunming in 1909, in the last years of the Qing dynasty, which trained more than 9,000 officers before it closed in 1935; its graduates included Zhu De and Ye Jianying as well as cadets from Korea and Vietnam. The surviving main building is a two-storey block built round a large courtyard, each side about 120 metres long. It houses the Yunnan Military Academy History Museum, opened in 2009, with exhibitions on the academy and on the Chinese Expeditionary Force of the Second World War.
How to get to Yunnan Military Academy
On the west side of Green Lake in central Kunming, a few minutes' walk from the park.
Nearby
- Green Lake Park 翠湖公园 under 10 km
Kunming's favourite park, where wintering gulls wheel over willow-lined causeways - Western Hills & Dragon Gate 西山龙门 10 km
Taoist grottoes and a single-file ledge path cut into a cliff high above Dianchi Lake - Chengjiang Fossil Site & Fuxian Lake 澄江化石地与抚仙湖 50 km
Half-billion-year-old fossils of early animals beside one of China's deepest lakes
Also within 20 km: Huize Hall, Yunnan University 会泽院 (under 10 km), Lu Han's Mansion 卢汉公馆 (under 10 km), Former Site of National Southwest Associated University 国立西南联合大学旧址 (under 10 km), Anti-Japanese War Victory Memorial Hall, Kunming 抗战胜利纪念堂 (under 10 km), Fulintang Pharmacy 福林堂 (under 10 km), Eastern and Western Pagodas 东西寺塔 (under 10 km).
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