Lu Xun Park

Lu Xun Park
Map
LocationShanghai
Public transit accessHongkou Football Stadium Station
Lu Xun Park
Simplified Chinese鲁迅公园
Traditional Chinese魯迅公園
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLǔ Xùn Gōngyuán
Wu
Shanghainese
Romanization
Lu Sin Konyoe
Hongkou Park
Simplified Chinese虹口公园
Traditional Chinese虹口公園
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHóngkǒu gōngyuán
Wu
Shanghainese
Romanization
Ghonkheu Konyoe

Lu Xun Park, formerly Hongkou (Hongkew) Park, is a municipal park in Hongkou District of Shanghai, China. It is located on 146 East Jiangwan Road, right behind Hongkou Football Stadium. It is bounded by Guangzhong Road to the north, Ouyang Road to the northeast, Tian'ai Road to the southeast, Tian'ai Branch Road to the south, and East Jiangwan Road to the west. The park is named after the Chinese writer Lu Xun, who lived nearby in the last years of his life, and is the location of the tomb of Lu Xun and the Lu Xun Museum. In 1932, Korean nationalist Yun Bong-gil detonated a bomb at the park, killing or injuring several high-ranking figures of the Imperial Japanese military during a celebration of Emperor Hirohito's birthday.

Lu Xun Park is just north of Duolun Road, a historic street that is now a car-free zone. It is also located near Lu Xun's former residence, a three-story Japanese-style home where the author lived from 1933 until his death in 1936.[1]

  1. ^ DK Eyewitness 2007, p. 138.