Jieshou Park () is an urban type

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Zhongzheng District Zhongzheng District (also Jhongjheng District) is a District (Taiwan), district in Taipei. It is home to most of the national government buildings of the Taiwan, Republic of China (Taiwan), including the Presidential Office Building, Taipei, P ...

Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the n ...

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Features

The park features the statue of

Lin Sen Lin Sen (; 16 March 1868 – 1 August 1943), courtesy name Tze-chao (子超), sobriquet Chang-jen (長仁), was a Chinese politician who served as Chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China from 1931 until his death. Early l ...

, the former

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of the

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. And in the west side of the park, there is a Memorial to the Victims of the

White Terror White Terror is the name of several episodes of mass violence in history, carried out against anarchists, communists, socialists, liberals, revolutionaries, or other opponents by conservative or nationalist groups. It is sometimes contrasted wit ...

History

The site of which Jieshou Park located was the former site of San-Jun basketball court (三軍球場) and sport venue of

Taipei First Girls' High School Taipei First Girls High School (TFG; ; colloquially or ), is a Taiwanese all-girls senior high school, located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City. Accepting only the top scorers in the national Comprehensive Assessment Program for Junior Hig ...

. The park urban planning release date is May the forth, 1956, designed number is no. 71, Zhongzheng. In 1964, the park finished and open to the public. Due to the location is just beside the Jieshou Road (now is

Ketagalan Boulevard Ketagalan Boulevard () is an arterial road in Zhongzheng District in Taipei, Taiwan, between the Presidential Office Building and the . It is long and has a total of ten lanes in each direction with no median. History The former name of this ...

), so the park was named Jieshou park. The name of the park Jieshou means celebrating

Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975), also known as Chiang Chung-cheng and Jiang Jieshi, was a Chinese Nationalist politician, revolutionary, and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 ...

birthday in

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, which the officials want to please the president Chiang Kai-shek. When the park open to the public, the city official held a Chrysanthemum exhibition for one week. In 1968, the former President of Republic of China Lin Sen was 100 years birthday, the authorities decided to place Lin Sen statue in Jieshou park for celebration. They use the foundation of the Governor-General of Taiwan

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statue for displaying Lin Sen Statue. November 15, 1969, the Secretary-General of Presidential Office

Zhang Qun Zhang Qun or Chang Ch'ün (; May 9, 1889 – December 14, 1990) also known as Zhang Yuejun (張岳軍), was premier of the Republic of China and a prominent member of the Kuomintang. He served as secretary general to the President of the Republ ...

, which is the Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the 100th Birthday of Mr. Lin Sen, held the inauguration ceremony of the statue. In 1972, Taipei City Government decide to incorporated the former basketball court of Taipei First Girls High School into Jieshou Park. On March 27 2008, Taiwan Government set up a monument of Memorial to the Victims of the White Terror in northwest corner of Jieshou park. In 2020, Park Street Lighting Office, Public Work Department, Taipei City was renovate the park in Zhongzheng District, Wanhua District and Da-an District, which included Jieshou Park.

Gallery

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Transportation

The park is accessible within walking distance South of

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References

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