Lu Xun Park

This guide to Lu Xun Park in Shanghai starts at eleven forty on the morning of April 29, 1932, as a band finishes playing at a ceremony marking Emperor Hirohito's birthday and a young man steps toward the stage with what looks like a water bottle. You'll hear who he was, the oath he had sworn only three days earlier under an independence leader hiding in the city, and what he carried in a lunch box meant for himself. Walk on past the park's lake, and the guide turns toward a second, very different man laid to rest here.