Song Qingling Mausoleum

Despite its hard-edged communist layout, this green park is excellent for a stroll and for escaping the relentless Gǔběi skyline. Song Qingling herself is interred in a low-key tomb here, but she is memorialised in the Song Qingling Exhibition Hall ( 宋庆龄陈列馆; Sòng Qìnglíng Chénlièguǎn) straight ahead from the main entrance, which itself looks like a Chinese imperial tomb. Among the displays of Song memorabilia – including her black qípáo – is a telling photograph of Marxist Westerners reading from Mao’s Little Red Book back in the days when it was politically fashionable. The international cemetery here also contains a host of foreign gravestones, including those of Jewish, Vietnamese and Western settlers of Shànghǎi.