Pantang Park (潘塘公园) offers a place to walk through a bit of greenery and somewhat get away from the urban areas which surround it in central Wuzhou. The park also offers a bit of a history through a series of busts titled "Rule of Law Celebrity Sculptures" ("法治名人雕像"). The busts are almost all arranged in the chronological order of the lives of the people they depict, ranging in time from Ancient Greece to Communist China. Below are photos of the eight busts and also links to the English Wikipedia page for each person, though the articles for the Chinese figures are less well referenced, if at all.
Notably, the first four busts are all of Westerners and the rest are all of Chinese. I am not very familiar with the history of rule of law in the Western world and China, but I am sure people more knowledgable about the topic would have deeper observations about this selection of people put on display at a relatively peaceful park in Wuzhou.
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| Aristotle (亚里士多德; 384–322 BC), Greek philosopher |
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| Ulpian (乌尔比安; 170 – 223), Roman jurist |
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| Montesquieu (孟德斯鸠; 1689-1755), French judge and political philosopher |
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| Shen Jiaben (沈家本; 1840-1913), Chinese politician and jurist |
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| Shen Junru (沈钧儒, 1875 - 1963), first president of the Supreme People's Court of China in the People's Republic of China |
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| Dong Biwu (董必武; 1886 - 1975), Chinese communist political leader |
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| Xie Juezai (谢觉哉; 1884 - 1971), former President of the Supreme People's Court |
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