Qingdao, Shandong,
China -- 1982

11. Zhongshan Park

Qingdao's Zhongshan Park is located slightly inland from the shores of picturesque Huiquan Bay, behind the built-up Huiquan Square area. Qingdao lies on the mini-peninsula that forms the northern arm which, together with the southern arm on which the city of Huangdao is located, form a set of pincers, as it were, that surround Jiaozhou Bay. Which in turn lies roughly midway along Shandong Peninsula's southern coastline. The park, which has a history not at all related to Dr. Sun Yat-sen, got its present name in 1929 in honor of the Republic of China military strategist and national hero, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whose name at birth was Sun Zhongshan