Huangpu Park
Waterfront garden on a reclaimed riverbank, its exclusionary past marked by a monument to revolutionary heroes.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Huangpu Park in Shanghai starts with a sign generations of visitors swore once hung at its gate, a phrase even Bruce Lee smashed on screen in 1972, and the historian's hunt for a photograph of it that never turns up. It sets that legend against what the surviving signboards from 1903 and 1917 actually said, and traces the park itself back to 1868, when the land was reclaimed mud at the junction of the Suzhou Creek and the Huangpu River. Listen for how the guide separates the story people remember from the paperwork that survived.
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