Song Qingling Mausoleum

Lonely Planet review

Despite its hard-edged communist layout, this green and well-tended park is excellent for a stroll and for escaping the relentless Hóngqiáo skyline. Song Qingling herself is interred in a low-key tomb here, but she is memorialised in the Song Qingling Exhibition Hall straight ahead from the main entrance, which itself looks like a Chinese Imperial tomb.

Among the displays of Song memorabilia - including her black qípáo (cheongsam dress) - is a telling photograph of Marxist Westerners reading from Mao's Little Red Book back in the days when it was politically fashionable to do so. The international cemetery here also contains a host of foreign gravestones, including those of Jewish, Vietnamese and Western settlers of Shanghai.