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Chinatown remains a
popular tourist attraction, and is one of the largest historic
Chinatowns in North America. Most visited is the Dr. Sun
Yat-Sen garden built in 1985-1986. The outer park was
designed by architects Joe Wai and Donald Vaughan, while the
inner garden was conceived by Wang Zu-Xin as the chief architect,
with the help of experts from the Landscape Architecture Company
of Suzhou, China. Funding for the project came from the Chinese
and Canadian governments, the local Chinese community, and other
public and private sector sources, and it opened on April 24,
1986, in time for Expo 86. Because the climate in Vancouver is
similar to that of Suzhou, many of the same plant varieties are
found in the garden as in its Suzhou counterparts. The plants
were chosen according to their blossom schedules in order to
emphasize seasonal changes, especially the “awakening”
in spring. They are also selected to invoke the symbolic,
historical, and literary meaning of each plant and are used
sparingly, in contrast to western gardens, and provide colour
through all the seasons.
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