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Zhongshan Park (Dalian)

park in Shahekou district, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China built by Japanese

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 3, 2023
Entity authorityQ5964640 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dalian Zhongshan Park (in Chinese: 大连中山公园) is a public park in the Shahekou District of Dalian, Liaoning Province, China, named after Sun Zhongshan, the first president of the Republic of China.

Occupying 102,000 square metres (1,100,000 sq ft) of land, the park was established in 1911 in honor of Prince Shotoku during the period that Japan leased Dalian from the Qing Dynasty government. It was renamed Zhongshan Park in 1946.

Editorial summary

“Zhongshan Park (Dalian)” enters the record as park in Shahekou district, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China built by Japanese. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Zhongshan, Park and Dalian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1911, 1946—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Zhongshan, Park and Dalian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Zhongshan Park (Dalian)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Zhongshan, Park and Dalian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 3, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q5964640. The first chronological checks are 1911 and 1946.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Zhongshan Park (Dalian)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Zhongshan Park (Dalian) primary sources, Zhongshan Park (Dalian) archive and Zhongshan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Zhongshan Park (Dalian)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.