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TheYuhuatai Martyrs Memorial Park is located in Nanjing City 南京市. &#160;It is a huge memorial site, dedicated to the martyrs whosacrificed themselves in the pre-Communist era. As claimed on the website “RedTourism” the whole place had been a torture ground for communistrevolutionaries during the Guomindang rule. Thefirst monument of the park, a memorial stele, was built in 1950 in order to rememberthe CCP members who had been killed during the Chinese Civil War (1927-1949) byGuomindang troops. In the post-Maoist era the whole complex was enlarged, becomingthe park of today. According to the Official Website, the park houses six main sites dedicated to martyrs.The Yuhuatai Martyrs Group Sculpture 雨花台烈士群雕 was erected in 1979 and is built in the style of socialist realism. It shows the wide spectrum of the martyrs due to the fact that not only peasants and workers, but also intellectuals are portrayed by the sculpture (Denton 2014: 113). Picture 1: Statues of martyrs, Nanjing.Nine years later the Reflecting Pool and the Memorial Bridge were added, which both flank the way to the center of the park, the Yuhuatai Martyrs Memorial Hall. &#160;According to Kirk Denton, the memorial hall builds a nexus between martyr-worship and industrial modernization. This can be seen by reference to the structure of the hall. In the first part, several bronze reliefs and showrooms are presenting the revolutionary past of single martyrs like Yun Daiyung 恽代英 (1895-1931), who was killed by the GMD in 1931. In the end, pictures of Nanjing´s skyline and highways are portrayed in order to signal the spectator “that the later would not have been possible without the former” (Denton 2014: 114). In 1989, the old stele from 1950 was demolished and replaced by the Yuhuatai Revolutionary Martyrs Monument 雨花台烈士纪念碑. It recalls the liberation of Nanjing in April 1949, when the CCP took over the control of the city. Furthermore, a golden calligraphic inscription of Deng Xiaoping 邓小平 (1904-1997), who was general secretary of the CCP at that time, can be found on the stele. (Official Website of Yuhuatai Martyrs Memorial Park). &#160;&#160;In1996, the Loyal Souls Pavilion 忠魂 亭 was added to thememorial site, on which the calligraphy of the former CCP chairman Jiang Zemin 江泽民(1926-) can be found. According to the exhibits of the parks, the Yuhuatai Martyrs Memorial Park seemingly represents a classic example of the post-Maoist building style. Furthermore, it is very interesting to see that the importance of martyrs-worshiping is justified by emphasizing the present achievements of Chinese modernization and not by underlining the martyrs' “heroic deeds” of the past. Bibliography:CCTV-10 Documentary 《全国爱国主义教育示范基地巡礼》 南京雨花台烈士陵园 Denton, Kirk A. (2014): Exhibiting the Past – Historical memory and the Politics of Museum in Postsocialist China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. Official homepage of the Yuhuatai Martyrs Memorial ParkWebsite Red Tourism: Yuhuatai Martyrs Memorial ParkZarrow, Peter (2005): China in war and revolution, 1895 – 1949. London: Routledge Verlag. Listof Pictures: Featured Image/ Picture 1: Statues of martyrs, Nanjing (source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statues_of_martyrs,_Nanjing.jpg, author: www.seefarseeeast.com) 