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Who founded the Whampoa Academy in China?

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Luce, Stephen — war college Stephen Luce, c. 1888.

The Whampoa Academy was founded by the Kuomintang (Nationalist) leader Sun Yat-sen in 1924. Located on an island near Guangzhou (then known as Canton), the academy was established to train a corps of young officers loyal to the party for a new national revolutionary army. Chiang Kai-shek served as the academy's first commandant.12