| Tilanqiao Prison | |||||||
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 Tilanqiao Prison | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 提篮桥监狱 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 提籃橋監獄 | ||||||
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The Tilanqiao Prison (Chinese: 提篮桥监狱), formerly known as the Ward Road Gaol or Shanghai Municipal Gaol, is a former prison in Hongkou District of Shanghai, China. Originally built in the foreign-controlled Shanghai International Settlement, following the Chinese Communist Revolution it was run by the Ministry of Public Security. Throughout the first forty or so years of its life it was the largest prison in the world and earned a reputation as the "Alcatraz of the Orient".[1]
- ^ Phillips, Tom (5 July 2013), "China prepares to close down its "city of the doomed"", The Daily Telegraph