19th Army Martyr's Park, Military memorial park in Shahe, China

This memorial park honors soldiers who died defending Shanghai in 1932 during a conflict with Japanese forces. The grounds feature monuments, sculptures, and landscaped gardens spread across a large space designed for reflection and remembrance.

In 1928 the 11th Army, predecessor of the 19th Route Army, built a cemetery here. After the 19th Route Army resisted the Japanese attack on Shanghai's Zhabei district from 28 January 1932 until the ceasefire of 5 May, overseas Chinese funded a memorial completed in 1933. It was damaged during the war and again during the Cultural Revolution; a management office opened in 1981.

The memorial's name comes from the 19th Route Army, a force made up largely of Guangdong soldiers. Its Roman-style granite monuments were funded by overseas Chinese, and the site now serves as a national patriotic education base where school groups and veterans' families gather, especially around the 1932 Shanghai Resistance anniversary.

Visit early in the morning or late afternoon when the light is best and the park is quieter. The grounds are flat and easy to walk through, with clear paths connecting the different monuments and memorial areas.

The 19.2-metre granite obelisk at the north end of the central axis, built in 1932, is the park's main structure, not the entrance arch. Its base carries inscriptions by Li Jishen and by Chen Mingshu, Jiang Guangnai, Cai Tingkai and Dai Ji, dated 10 March 1932.