Zhongshan (Jessfield) Park, Shanghai
In Shanghai, we pitch our pop up tent in Zhongshan Park, one of the city’s large green spaces known as a playground, a place to walk and a ‘breathing spot’. Known as Jessfield Park when it was created in 1914, it was the site of an English private garden before being crafted into a public park with a curved lake, winding paths, lawns and kinds of gardens, integrating the style of English Landscape Garden, Chinese Classical Garden, and Japanese Garden. Access was restricted to Europeans and Americans until 1928. The park was named Zhongshan (in common with more than 40 other parks) in 1944 in honour of Dr Sun Yat-sen.
Your answers to the following series of short questions, as a visitor of Zhongshan Park, will be used to inform a historical study on the evolution of the park as a place of wellbeing.
The information will be stored on a university drive and may be accessed by staff members directly involved in the project.
Your information data will be stored for no longer than 10 years. If you wish for your information to be deleted sooner, please contact Karen Jones at K.R.Jones@kent.ac.uk.