According to the Daily Telegraph website, Ruan, a scholar from Tongji University in Shanghai, is a member of Tilanqiao Prison Reconstruction Planning Group. He said, "We will keep what is worth preserving, but urban reconstruction and development is an inevitable trend."
Yan Yingen, a 66-year-old resident of the alley around the prison, said: "We really want to move. This is the only way for us poor people to live a better life. "
Data: Shanghai Tilanqiao Prison
Far East No.1 Prison
Shanghai Prison Exhibition Hall is located in Shanghai Tilanqiao Prison, Changyang Road 147 on the Huangpu River. Tilanqiao Prison is a building complex consisting of more than 10 buildings. It was founded in 190 1, 19003 and opened in May, and then it was expanded and rebuilt one after another. It was not until19,35 that it reached its present scale, and it has been in use ever since. Tilanqiao Prison was once known as "the first prison in the Far East" because of its excellent construction and large scale. Shanghai Prison Administration has successively invested more than 3 million yuan to transform a six-story cross prison building in Tilanqiao Prison into a Shanghai prison exhibition hall. The exhibition hall was officially opened on February 29th 1999, the fifth anniversary of the promulgation and implementation of the Prison Law.
Tilanqiao is a famous place in Shanghai. "Send Nong to Tilanqiao" is an oblique curse.
This famous prison, once called "the first prison in the Far East", has a history of 100 years. Many famous figures in China's modern history were imprisoned here, including Zhang Taiyan and Zou Rong, as well as producers Ren and Zhang Aiping.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, hundreds of Japanese war criminals were held here. For example, Japanese "Taiwanese Governor" Ando Rikichi, "Hong Kong Governor" Tanaka Jiuhe, and Commander of the Sixth Army General Okabe Nasaburo all died in Tilanqiao Prison. /20 1307 10/n 38 12 10600 . shtml