People's Park
Century-old public park built on a former Manchu garrison, centered on a stone monument to a railway shareholders' revolt.
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This guide to People's Park in Chengdu traces a wave of anger back to 1905, when Sichuan's farmers and merchants bought shares in a new railway line, many paying through an added harvest tax. It follows the acting governor Zhao Erfeng's crackdown after the imperial government seized the railway in 1911 and refused to repay investors, and the protest that brought tens of thousands into Chengdu's streets that September. A tall stone monument, part pagoda and part European column, was raised on this ground two years later to honor those who died.
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