The Shanghai Yangpu Court Museum is located on the sixth floor of the People's Court building and is the first museum in Shanghai dedicated to introducing legal culture and court development. The museum exhibition hall covers an area of 200 square meters, featuring 16 display panels, over 200 images, and more than 100 physical objects and models. Organized chronologically, it is divided into sections such as "The Culture of Law…"
Yangpu District is the birthplace of modern industry in China and the cradle of the growth of the Chinese working class. To commemorate those revolutionary years filled with fervor, the Hudong Workers’ Cultural Palace has set aside a dedicated space to create the "Historical Materials of Yangpu Workers' Movement" exhibition area, providing a venue for patriotic education for the general public. The exhibition features display panels that are 75 centimeters…
The "Welcoming the Liberation of Shanghai" Memorial Sculpture Group, as the centerpiece of the Donggong Patriotic Education Base, was built to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the May 30th Movement and the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions. It was officially unveiled on May 7, 1985, the anniversary of the Liberation of Shanghai. The entire sculpture is meticulously crafted from fiberglass-reinforced plastic, featuring an all-white design…
To commemorate the patriotic students who sacrificed their lives in the struggle against oppression and for democracy, as well as the Tongji martyrs who devoted themselves during the democratic revolution, the Tongji University Student Movement Memorial Park was established in May 1985. It serves as a youth education base in Shanghai. Covering an area of 4,400 square meters, the park features a statue of alumnus Yin Jingyi, a martyr who died in the May 30th Movement...
The Memorial Room of Martyr Qiu Shaoyun is located within Shanghai Shao Yun Middle School (No. 1980 Huangxing Road), an environment with elegant surroundings and convenient transportation. Covering an area of over 50 square meters, the memorial primarily displays photos and textual materials about the brief yet glorious life of Comrade Qiu Shaoyun, as well as images and information on other martyrs from the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, and inscriptions from leaders commemorating Qiu Shaoyun in different periods...
The Tongji University National Defense Education Exhibition Hall is located on the Siping Road Campus of Tongji University. It was planned in 1991 and opened to the public in 1992. Covering an area of over 1,000 square meters, with a building area of over 800 square meters and an exhibition area of over 300 square meters, it is currently the most comprehensively equipped and largest-scale national defense...
Feidaifu, alias Fedefu, was a native of Shanghai. He joined the Communist Party in 1925, went to the Soviet Union for studies in 1926, returned to China in 1928, and served as the director of the Shanghai East District Labor Federation in 1930.
Named after the renowned anti-Japanese general, General Yang Jingyu. In 1993, the Party Committee of Kongjiang Subdistrict and Jingyu Middle School jointly erected a statue of General Yang Jingyu on campus, designating the site as a patriotic education base. Since then, various organizations have repeatedly held commemorative activities for students in front of the statue to honor the revolutionary martyrs and promote patriotism. In September 2006...
Can you imagine that this “British-style castle” is the Shanghai Water Supply Technology Museum? Once the “largest waterworks in the Far East,” it narrates the past and present of Shanghai’s “water story.” The Shanghai Water Supply Technology Museum was upgraded and transformed from the former Shanghai Water Supply Exhibition Hall. Its building is an early 20th-century British…
The 80-year-old "Little Forbidden City" in the magic city—Yangpu Library's new building—has been open to the public free of charge since its renovation was completed in 2018. With its beautiful gate towers, exquisite paintings, majestic red-painted columns, vintage decorative displays, and clean, bright reading spaces... who would have thought this place was once an abandoned building? Shanghai’s newest…
Asia’s largest fashion center — the Shanghai International Fashion Center is located at No. 2866 Yangshupu Road. It is a redevelopment project of the former No. 17 Cotton Mill, covering an area of 120,800 square meters with a construction area of approximately 130,000 square meters. The first phase of the project was completed by the end of 2010; the second phase was completed in 2011; the overall project was planned to be…
Located at No. 516 Jun Gong Road, Shanghai, on the former site of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (now part of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology). Originally named Shanghai Baptist College, it was founded in 1906 by the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (North and South China). In 1914, it was officially renamed the University of Shanghai. The site preserves 35 major buildings from the University of Shanghai period, making it one of the most well-preserved...
Yates Hall was one of the first buildings decided upon by the university board during the Mogan Mountain Conference in August 1906, along with four residences for foreign faculty, two two-story Chinese-style buildings with eight rooms each, and a dining hall. Construction of the campus buildings began in the spring of 1907. Due to the low-lying, soft soil of the purchased tidal flat land, which was often flooded during high tide, it took eight months...
Siping Hall was built in 1915. Its name, “Siping,” commemorates Dr. Manley J. Breaker, the first secretary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (also known as the American Mishiuli Baptist Mission). The construction cost of 9,400 US dollars was raised by President Francis C. Woodward from the American Mishiuli Baptist Mission. The four-story building features a portico at the entrance, designed...
The gymnasium was built in 1918 with a donation of $18,100 from Colonel E. H. Haskell of Boston, USA, in 1917. The two-story building features a red brick exterior, and its pointed arch entrance reflects Gothic architectural style. In 1932, after the completion of the women's gymnasium located on the south side of the campus, this building was renamed the North Gymnasium. Today, it serves as the Student Activity Center of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.
Siyi Hall was built in 1919 with a donation of $43,500 from Mr. Harris of Evanston, Chicago, USA. The four-story building features a brick-and-wood structure with red brick walls, white-trimmed window surrounds and balconies, and a slightly protruding entrance with an arched doorway. The windows are all rectangular casement windows, arranged in three bays side by side. When originally constructed...
Constructed in 1920, Simmons Hall is built in the Gothic Revival style. The arched doorway at the base features pointed arches, while the large triangular gable on the roof creates a sharp upward sweep, reminiscent of a church steeple. The exterior walls are made of red bricks, with rectangular flat windows set in white stone-like surrounds. The roof is double-pitched and covered...
Science Hall: The Science Hall was built in 1918 with funding donated by Mr. and Mrs. Tritt from California, USA, and completed in 1921. The building has four floors above ground and one underground, featuring a steel-concrete structure and an exposed red brick exterior. Its facade is simple, with a square entrance hall at the entry, a pointed arch door, and layered inward-curving pointed arches that resemble those of a church...
Huai De Hall was the second donation made by the Tret family. It was built in 1921 and completed in 1923. The five-story building features walls made of plain red brick, stone-like window surrounds, and continuous flat arch windows. Originally constructed as a female dormitory. Huai De Hall (Women’s Hall): During a major renovation in 1963, the spire was...
Richmond Hall was built in 1922 with a grant of $32,100 from the American Southern Baptist Convention. Originally serving as the upper division of the middle school, it shares the same architectural style as Thurston Hall and now functions as the First Office Building of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. In the autumn of 1922, the White Swimming Pool was completed. The pool was proposed and funded by faculty and students in September 1920 to commemorate the 50th anniversary celebration of President F. L. H. Willis.