Shànghǎi Sights

Martyrs Memorial

#74 of 574 things to do in Shànghǎi

#74 of 574 things to do in Shànghǎi

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  • Address
    • Longhua Rd
  • Transport
    • Longcao Rd,
    • 44 from Xújiāhuì
  • Price
    • admission Y1, memorial hall Y5
  • Hours
    • 6am-5pm, museum 9am-4pm

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Lonely Planet review for Martyrs Memorial

Next to the Longhua Temple, this park marks the site of an old Kuomintang prison, where 800 communists, intellectuals and political agitators were executed between 1928 and 1937. You can take a modern underground tunnel to the original jailhouses and the small execution ground. Scattered throughout the manicured lawns are epic sculptures of workers and soldiers, depicted in true socialist realism art style. During WWII this area was a Japanese internment camp and airfield, as depicted in the JG Ballard novel and Spielberg film Empire of the Sun.

 

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