This series consists of photographs of models and completed structures of architectural projects Poy Gum Lee worked on in China.

How Chinese identity could or should be manifested through architecture in the Chinese Republic was a fundamental tension in the nascent Chinese architectural profession in the 1920s and 1930s. As the Chinese Republic embraced western ideas and technologies in service of modernization – but sought to retain and express the essential elements of Chinese identity – a hybrid modern architecture emerged, fully reflective of the political and cultural ferment in China during the Nationalist era. The Chinese style of the 1920s and 30s descended from a picturesque Oriental revitalism promoted by American and European missionary architects in China and the first generation of Chinese architects was heavily influenced by western representations of Chinese-ness. While in China, Lee worked on the Cosmopolitan Apartments, Wusong Quarantine Station, the Bank of Canton, various schools and YMCA buildings and succeeded Lu Yanzhi in the completion of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing and the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Guangzhou.