Yan'an West Road is located in Changning District, running east-west, from Huashan Road (connecting Yan'an Middle Road) in the east to Huqingping Highway in the west. In the early 1990s, it only connected to Hongqiao Road and Gubei Road, which were the main east-west traffic arteries in the urban area. In 1910, the Shanghai Public Concession Bureau filled in chai Xingbang to build Changbang Road, and from Dingpan Road (now Jiangsu Road) to Changbang Road (now Yan'an Middle Road) in the south of Jing'an Temple, that is, the eastern section of present-day Yan'an West Road, in 1922 it was connected from Changbang Road to Wangjialou Hobilan Road (now Gubei Road), named Great Western Road, in October 1943, it was renamed Chang'an Road after the place name of Shaanxi Province, and in 1945 the Kuomintang authorities changed the name of Zhongzheng West Road to He Chiang Kai-shek's 60th birthday. In 1950, it was renamed Yan'an West Road after the revolutionary holy land of Yan'an.
Shanghai Children's Palace, No. 64 Yan'an West Road
Outstanding Historic Building No.: JA-J-005-I; Immovable Relics No.: 310106925190000074 Residence of Sir Kadoorie, Jing'an Temple Street, Republic of China
Original Name/Former (Former) Unit: Sir Kadoorie Residence; Present Name/Current Unit: Shanghai Children's Palace
Address: No. 64 Yan'an West Road
Protection level: Shanghai Cultural Relics Protection Unit
Number of floors: 2 floors (false 3 layers); Structure type: brick-concrete structure; Year built: 1924; Protection category: Class II
Originally the residence of the wealthy Jewish businessman Eli Kadoorie, the building was built in 1918, completed six years later, and then added another floor in 1929, and completed in 1931. Elegant and opulent, it presents the style of an 18th-century European royal palace. The entire building is clad in marble on the exterior and decorated with giant marble carvings on the interior walls. The staircase of the building is completely marble, and the floor is not separated from marble and inlay teak. Kadoorie Residence is known as the representative work of the Ocean House in the Republic of China period, commonly known as the "Marble Palace".
Sir Elly Kadoorie (1867–1944), Jewish, hong Kong philanthropist, was knighted in 1926 and founded by the Hong Kong CLP Company Limited. In 1944, Elie Kadoorie died in his apartment at 64 Yan'an West Road.
The Kadoorie family, whose ancestors lived in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. In the 18th century, he moved to Mumbai, India, and later made his career in Shanghai. The Kadoorie family also bought the Guangzhou Power Plant from the British, but the business in Guangzhou suffered a loss, moved to Hong Kong, and built the Crane Garden Street Power Plant, mainly to supply power to the Peninsula Hotel, and Eli Kadoorie became the majority shareholder at the time after the reorganization of the power plant. The Kadoorie family founded The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Limited in 1866 and operated hotels in Shanghai in the early days. The Peninsula Hotels brand manages a number of luxury hotels around the world, including The Peninsula Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong.
After experiencing many vicissitudes, this "marble palace" became the children's palace of the China Welfare Association initiated by Song Qingling in 1953, and became a garden for cultivating children's scientific thinking and cultivating talents.
Huadong Hospital, No. 221 Yan'an West Road (South Building)
Excellent Historical Building No.: JA-J-006-I; Immovable Cultural Relics No.: 310106925190000195 Hong'en Hospital, Jing'an Temple Street, Republic of China
Original Name/Former (Former) User Unit: Hong'en Hospital; Present Name/Current User Unit: Huadong Hospital (South Building)
Address: No. 221 Yan'an West Road
Number of floors: 5 floors (partial 8 layers); Structure type: reinforced concrete structure; Year of construction: 1926; Protection category: Class II
Designed by the famous Hungarian Hudak, the building was the first project by Hudak to be fully responsible for himself, and it was also his first major work after leaving the American architects firm Klee & Co. in 1925 to open independently. It was built by Pan Rongji Construction Factory. The entire building plan is in the shape of an "I", which has the characteristics of European Renaissance architecture.
Country Hospital, funded by American Charles Ernest Rayner, did not publish his name at the time at the time and did not make it public until many years later. Mr. Rayner joined the prestigious Carlowitz and Co. firm in the late 19th century, and after World War II and after Reyner moved to California, he remained in seclusion until his death in the 1950s at the age of 95.
Aerial view of Hong'en Hospital in the 1930s
Hong'en Hospital has just been built as "the best hospital in the Far East", because it is directly under the Ministry of Works, and the facilities are excellent, the medical skills are exquisite, so Hong'en Hospital has always been favored by overseas Chinese in Shanghai, and many celebrities are more willing to come here for treatment. The news that some dignitaries and dignitaries were treated or given first aid here often appeared in the news: on November 2, 1936, duan Qirui, former prime minister of the Republic of China and interim ruler, died of stomach bleeding in Shanghai Hong'en Hospital; on August 27, 1937, the "Declaration" reported that the British ambassador was shot by the Japanese army on the way from Nanjing to Shanghai, and was seriously injured and rushed to Hong'en Hospital for rescue; on March 8, 1947, the "Declaration" published the news that Bu Fangji, the former president of St. John's University, died of illness at Hong'en Hospital.
In May 1949, after the liberation of Shanghai, Hong'en Hospital was accepted and handed over to the Ministry of Health of the East China Military and Political Committee, and in August of the following year, Huadong Hospital was established at the original site of Hong'en Hospital, with 60 beds, responsible for the medical care tasks of party, government and military leading cadres at or above the bureau level in East China and Shanghai, experts and professors of the first class and above and foreign guests. In February 1965, it was merged with the adjacent municipal publicly-funded medical hospital and renamed Shanghai Municipal Publicly-funded Medical Hospital, and in March of the following year, it was renamed Yan'an Hospital. In December 1967, the south and north buildings of the hospital were divided into a system, the south building was renamed Huadong Hospital, and the north building was still called Yan'an Hospital. In May 1970, Yan'an Hospital moved to Kunming, Yunnan Province, and the hospital was assigned to Huadong Hospital, and the North Building was still open to the public. In 1986, the Shanghai Geriatrics Medical Research Institute was established. In 1987, it became the Teaching Hospital of Shanghai Medical University. At the end of 1990, there were 400 beds and 985 health technicians, including 107 with senior technical titles. In 1994, it was rated as a tertiary first-class hospital.
238 Yan'an West Road
Excellent Historical Building No.: JA-J-009-II; Immovable Cultural Relics No.: 310106945190000156 Former Site of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai Jing'an Temple Street, Republic of China
Original name/former (former) user unit: Italian Federation; current name/current use unit: Shanghai Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature
Address: No. 238 Yan'an West Road
Number of floors: false 4 floors; Structure type: brick-concrete structure; Year built: 1925; Protection category: Class II
Italian General Assembly architecture, French Renaissance style. The central part of the south façade is cascaded with Ioni colonnades, the entrance porch of the east façade is Ionic double columns, and the top mountain flower has a Baroque style.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he applied for registration with the Shanghai Municipal Land Affairs Bureau of the Kuomintang in the name of the Italian "government" as an agent. After the end of World War II, the property of The Italian state in China (including the property of Italian overseas Chinese) was not treated as enemy property, and the legitimate professional activities engaged in by the Italian overseas Chinese were protected by the government of the greater Chinese government. After the liberation of Shanghai, Italian overseas Chinese returned to China, the club was in a state of suspension or semi-suspension, Shanghai Wenlian had negotiated with the agents left behind by the relevant departments to rent the house due to the needs of the house, and later acquired the house at a price, and the land was recovered by China. In May 1968, it was taken over by the People's Government.
This building has long been misrepresented as the Italian General Assembly, and according to the records of the 1947 line map, the current "Old Building of the Literary Union" is actually a private house (the red box in the picture below), and the Paramount square and the old site of the Italian Association building separated from one wall have long ceased to exist.
1947 line number diagram (the red frame shows the building where the "Old Building of the Literary Association" is located)
According to Cao Wei's "Shanghai Residences in the Port", page 200 , No. 238 Yan'an West Road was built for himself by Zhou Shixian, who runs a textile factory. At present, after the renovation of the "Old Building of the Literary Association", it will become a space mainly for conferences and exhibitions, and at the same time serve as the office space of the Literary Association.
No. 355 Yan'an West Road (No. 630 Huashan Road) Shanghai Theater Academy Yuxuan Building
Excellent Historical Building Number: JA-J-039-V; Immovable Cultural Relics Number: 310106805190000076 Yuxuan Building, Jing'an Temple Street, Republic of China
Current name/current use unit: Yuxiu Building, Shanghai Theater Academy
Address: No. 355 West Yan'an Road (No. 630 Huashan Road)
Gu Yuxiu (1902-2002), a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. A master of scientists, educators, poets, dramatists, musicians and Buddhists.
In October of the 34th year of the Republic of China (1945), Gu Yuxiu, then director of the Shanghai Municipal Education Bureau, proposed the establishment of the Shanghai Municipal Experimental Drama School (the predecessor of the Shanghai Theater Academy), personally drafted the name of the school, and appointed Li Jianwu and others as members of the preparatory committee and invited Xiong Foxi to participate in the preparatory work of the theater school, with Mr. Xiong Foxi as the first dean. In October 1949, the Shanghai Experimental Drama School was renamed Shanghai Municipal Drama College. In 1952, the national institutions of higher learning implemented the adjustment of faculties, and the Drama Department of the Art Department of Shandong University and the Drama Group of Shanghai Xingzhi Art School were formally established and renamed the East China Branch of the Central Academy of Drama. In 1956, it was officially named Shanghai Theater Academy, which is a higher art school directly under the Ministry of Culture. In April 2000, it was transferred to shanghai municipality and the Ministry of Culture, and in June 2002, the former Shanghai Normal University School of Performing Arts, Shanghai Opera School and Shanghai Dance School were merged into Shanghai Theater Academy.
The Shanghai Theater Academy, located at 355 Yan'an West Road (630 Huashan Road), was once home to a German country club. After World War I, the French forcibly occupied the country club built by the Germans on the original MeierxiAi Road (today's Maoming South Road) in Shanghai, and the Germans, who usually like to gather casually, had no choice but to rebuild a country club in the beautiful garden of Huxi. Built in 1903, the club covers an area of more than 3 acres, with a two-storey German bungalow (Xiongfer West Building) with a well-framed and expensive porch. The building is equipped with a living room, a women's room, a lounge, a dance hall, a dining room, a marbles room, etc., and more than 10 tennis courts and lawn bowls have been built in the garden. In 1910, the Germans built an open-air ice rink here. Later, the Theater Academy built a theater to dig out a swimming pool, which is also a masterpiece of the Germans of this period.
No. 355 Yan'an West Road (No. 630 Huashan Road) Xiong Fo West Building, Shanghai Theater Academy
Excellent Historical Building No.: JA-J-023-IV; Immovable Relics No.: 310106945180000075 Xiongfo West Building Qing Jing'an Temple Street
Original name/original (former) use unit: Xiong Fo West Building; current name/current use unit: Xiong Fo West Building, Shanghai Theater Academy
Number of floors: 2 floors; Structure type: brick and wood structure; Year of construction: 1903; Protection category: Class II
Xiong Foxi, a native of Fengcheng, Jiangxi, born in 1900 and died in 1965, was a theater educator and playwright. One of the pioneers and founders of Chinese drama. The first president of the Shanghai Theater Academy.
The Schomför West Building was first used as the German "Thiermont" Country Club. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, the "Second Factory of the Central Film Company" that returned to Shanghai from the rear area moved here, and a group of famous old filmmakers once settled here.
At that time, this German country club (Xiong Fo West Building) separated from the "Beautiful Garden" was a place where Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng often went on a date when they first fell in love.
No. 355 Yan'an West Road (No. 630 Huashan Road) Shanghai Theater Academy Xiongfu West Building Side Building
On the left-hand side of the Xiong Fo West Building, which was then the side building of the Tainmont Club, it served the functions of a dance hall and a film screening hall, and the Central Film Company was set up as a recording studio after entering the station. Many of Shanghai's early film recordings, big band soundtracks, sound mixing, etc. were completed here, and it was once a place where many directors and filmmakers came and went, directors Fei Mu, Shen Fu, Cai Chusheng, Tang Xiaodan, Gu Just, movie stars Zhao Dan, Xie Tian, Lan Ma, Zhou Xuan, and musicians Chen Gexin and Yan Hua were often in and out.
After renovation in 2001, the building (formerly the Thiermont Club) was named "Xiong Fo West Building", and the name of the building was inscribed by the famous playwright Mr. Du Xuan. The side building of the original Thiermont Club was renovated together with the Xiong Fo West Building and became the new experimental space theater for the play.
No. 355 Yan'an West Road (No. 630 Huashan Road) Zhongyi Building, Shanghai Theater Academy
No. 355 Yan'an West Road (No. 630 Huashan Road) Jianwu Building, Shanghai Theater Academy
Excellent historical building number: JA-J-002-V; immovable cultural relics number: 310106805190000104 Shanghai Theater Academy Jianwu Building, Zhongyi Building, Republic of China Jing'an Temple Street
Original Name/Former (Former) User Unit: Drama Academy (Zhongyi Building, Jianwu Building)
Address: No. 630 Huashan Road
Among the excellent historical monuments named after dramatists in the Shanghai Theater Academy are the Zhongyi Building and the Jianwu Building.
Gu Zhongyi (1903-1965) was a Chinese theater theorist, educator, and playwright. He was a professor in the Department of Dramatic Literature at the Shanghai Theater Academy.
Li Jianwu (1906-1982) was a famous writer and dramatist in modern times. He participated in the preparation of the Shanghai Experimental Drama School (later renamed Shanghai Theater College) and served as the head of the Department of Drama and Literature.
Beautiful Garden, Lane 379, Yan'an West Road
Excellent historical building number: JA-J-005-V; immovable cultural relics number: 310106805190000165 Beautiful Garden, Jing'an Temple Street, Republic of China
Current name/current unit: Beautiful Garden
Address: No. 2-65, Lane 379, Yan'an West Road
Lane 379, Yan'an West Road (No. 2-16, No. 18, No. 20, No. 22), Beautiful Garden. Built between 1912 and 1936, it consists of 7 detached garden houses and 7 townhouses. Brick and wood construction. The single building style is similar, with red flat tile slope roof, clear water red brick façade, and corner decoration with water brushed stone imitation stone.
Beautiful Garden, originally Lane 45 of Great West Road, also has an English name May Lee Court, which is said to be the English name of the developer's daughter. Speaking of the Beautiful Garden, it is inevitable to mention the story of Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng.
At that time, Hu Lancheng lived in No. 28 Beautiful Garden, and Zhang Ailing lived in Changde Apartment (formerly Elinden Apartment). One day in the early spring of 1944, on the lawn of a courtyard in Nanjing, there was a middle-aged man lying on a wicker chair flipping through a magazine. When he saw a novel, he had just read the beginning, and he couldn't help but sit up straight and read it carefully over and over again. This man is Hu Lancheng, and the novel he reads is Zhang Ailing's "Blockade".
At this time, Hu Lancheng was already serving in the Wang puppet government and was recuperating in Nanjing. When he received the eleventh issue of the magazine "Heaven and Earth" sent by Su Qing, he was overjoyed when he read "Blockade". Soon, he received the twelfth issue of "Heaven and Earth" sent by Su Qing, which not only had Zhang Ailing's article, but also her photo. Hu Lancheng was deeply moved by Zhang Ailing's article and eagerly wanted to get to know this talented woman. After returning to Shanghai, I came to find Zhang Ailing according to the address provided by Su Qing - Room 65, 6th Floor, Apartment No. 192, Hede Road, Jing'an Temple Road.
According to the usual habit, Zhang Ailing did not see him. Perhaps due to fate, two days later, Zhang Ailing found the Beautiful Garden Apartment at No. 28, Lane 379, Yan'an West Road, Shanghai, according to the address on the prayer post. Hu Lancheng, deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department of the Wang puppet regime, fell in love with the arrogant talented woman. Zhang Ailing once wrote: "When I saw him, she became very low and very low, low to the dust. But her heart was joyful, and flowers blossomed from the dust. This year, Hu Lancheng was 38 years old and Zhang Ailing was 24 years old.
Zhang Ailing met Hu Lancheng here. She lived only one night, paying for a lifetime of disaster and loneliness. Even so, she had nothing to say. Hu Lancheng had to say it.
Chaos cannot be loved. Hu Lancheng fled here. In danger, the same sneaking incense. Zhang Ailing came to visit, and she could only be called a cousin. In the cold weather, he sat on a small stool in the mud of the woodhouse and watched his husband lean on other women.
In August 1944, after Hu Lancheng divorced his second wife, he secretly married Zhang Ailing in Shanghai (only Yan Ying and Hu Lancheng's niece Hu Qingyun were present at the wedding). Hu Lancheng and Zhang Ailing signed a lifelong contract and married a couple. May the years be quiet and the present world be stable. The first two sentences are written by Zhang Ailing, and the last two sentences are written by Hu Lancheng. Soon, Hu Lancheng went to Wuhan to run a newspaper, and during his hospital, he seduced a 17-year-old nurse, Zhou Xunde, and lived with him.
A year later, in August 1945, when Japan surrendered, Hu Lancheng, under the pseudonym Zhang Jiayi, fled to Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, to teach at Wenzhou Middle School. During his exile, Hu Lancheng lived with Fan Xiumei. In February 1946, Zhang Ailing visited Wenzhou.
In 1946, Zhang Ailing collaborated with the film director Sang Arc to write a script, which was quite successful. On June 10, 1947, Zhang Ailing wrote a letter to Hu Lan in exile.
Hu Lancheng received a farewell letter from Zhang Ailing:
I don't like you anymore, you don't like me anymore. This determination was something I had considered for a year and a half. He does not want to increase your difficulties. Don't come to me, even if you write a letter, I won't look at it.
Xiao Ji means small robbery. Zhang Ailing also attached her own 300,000 yuan manuscript fee. Since then, a legendary love affair between the two of them has come to a bitter end.
In the early 1950s, Hu Lancheng moved to Japan, and Zhang Ailing had left the mainland for Hong Kong. Hu Lancheng got the news and asked someone to visit her, but before he met, the man left Hu Lancheng's address in Japan. Half a year later, Hu Lancheng received a postcard, without looking up, without a signature, only familiar handwriting:
If you have books such as "Difficult and Difficult to Fight" and "Civilization and Tradition" (except for "Mountains and Rivers") at hand, can you borrow them for a few months as a reference? Behind it is Zhang Ailing's address in the United States.
Hu Lancheng was overjoyed, thinking that the old feelings could be restored, and thinking that Zhang Ailing still admired herself, so she immediately replied to the letter according to the address and attached a new book and photos. When the first volume of "This Life and This Life" was published, he sent a book to the past, writing a long letter, as a lingering word. Zhang Ailing did not reply at all, and only sent a short note at the end:
Lan Cheng:
Your letter and book have been received, thank you very much. I don't want to write, please forgive me. I took the liberty of borrowing it from you because I really couldn't find a reference to your old writings, and I really feel sorry if I misunderstood you. When the next volume of This Life and This Life is published, if you are not unhappy, please send me a copy. I thank you in advance here and will not write another letter.
Ai Ling
When Hu Lan saw it, he completely stopped thinking. At this point, this love is truly over.
In March 1954, Hu Lancheng was married to She Aizhen. His union with She Aizhen was the last of all the couples or prospective couples in his life to marry a woman. She Aizhen was just over fifty years old, and Hu Lancheng was forty-nine years old. On July 25, 1981, Hu Lancheng died of heart failure in Tokyo, Japan, at the age of 75.
No. 14, MeiliYuan, Lane 379, Yan'an West Road
The original owner of No. 14 Meiyuan was the "Satin King" of Shanghai Beach and Wang Yansong of Shangyu, Zhejiang (No. 45 is the former Wang Yansong Garage).
Wang Yansong has long served as the chairman of Shanghai Silk Bank, the principal of Shanghai Chamber of Commerce Business School (the predecessor of Lixin Accounting School), and is related to Chen Lifu and Chen Guofu, pan Hannian and Liu Haisu are regular customers of Beautiful Garden.
In 1949, at the instigation of his friends on the CHINESE side, Wang Yansong was full of confidence in the future of New China, lost confidence in the old Chiang Kai-shek, and gave up the temptation to go to Taiwan. But all the positions into history, left their own industrial silk bank, to 1950 silk bank bankruptcy, clean up assets, sell the beautiful garden bungalows to pay the wages of bank employees, Wang Yansong with some family members to apply to Go to Hong Kong, a few years later to Taiwan, as a Taiwan banking consultant, living a poor and idle life, died in Taipei at the end of 1975.
No. 2 and 4, Lane 394, Yan'an West Road
Immovable cultural relics number: 310106945190000151 Ministry of Works Bureau DaLong Tang No. 2, No. 4 residence Republic of China Jing'an Temple Street
Address: Yan'an West Road 394 Lane 2, No. 4
Residential buildings No. 2 and No. 4, Lane 394, Yan'an West Road, are independent two-family joint buildings. Built in the Republic of China, it was originally a private residence and was nationalized after liberation.
The house sits north and south, is a brick and wood structure false three-storey, the whole plane is slightly closer to the rectangle, the middle part of the south side is slightly concave, and there is an open space in the front. On the north side is the daily entrance with a portico.
The external structure of the house is symmetrically arranged according to the axis, and the middle part of the north side is vacated and enclosed with the main building to form a patio. In the middle of the second floor of the south façade is an open terrace, and the ground in front of the house is slightly sunken down, becoming a small garden. The double-sloped, polyline roof is covered with red flat tiles and has a chimney.
No. 8, Lane 394, Yan'an West Road (formerly No. 377 Daxi Road), was formerly the Shanghai Meteorological Observatory of the Central Meteorological Bureau of the National Government.
Monument in front of Lane 9, Lane 420, Yan'an West Road
No. 9, Lane 420, Yan'an West Road (formerly Fukangli, Daxi Road), is the site of the first secret radio station of the CPC Central Committee. In the autumn of 1929, the party organization leased a three-story Shikumen building at No. 9 Fukangli, Great West Road, in the British Concession of Shanghai, as the site of a secret radio station. The man who stayed here is Zhang Shenchuan, and the "hostess" is Pu Qiuchao, who has just returned from studying in the Soviet Union, and in order to work, they pretend to be husband and wife. The station is operated by Li Qiang, and Zhang Shenchuan is responsible for sending and receiving newspapers. Also working here are Pu Qiuchao, Huang Shangying and others. At the end of the year, Li Qiang and Huang Shangying went to Hong Kong to open a branch station, and in January 1930, the two stations were successfully announced. Through the forwarding of the Hong Kong branch, radio links were opened between the Cpc Central Committee in Shanghai and the Central Soviet Region of Jiangxi, which effectively promoted the development of the revolutionary cause.
Site of the first secret radio station of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (the original building has been demolished)
Between 1928 and 1931, during the underground intelligence war between the Kuomintang and the Communists in Shanghai, Li Qiang was an extremely important figure; he not only developed and created the first radio station of the Communist Party of China and realized radio communications between Shanghai and Hong Kong, but also was one of the earliest radio instructors of our Party and founded training courses to cultivate radio communication talents for our Party.
In 1905, Li Qiang (formerly known as Zeng Peihong) was born in Changshu, Jiangsu Province. Li Qiang has been full of interest in new things since he was a child, and his academic performance is excellent. In 1923, Li Qiang entered the middle school department of The Nanyang Road Mine School in Shanghai, which adopted bilingual teaching. Upon graduation, Li Qiang received two graduation certificates in both Chinese and English. At that time, with an English diploma, he could go directly to the University of Wisconsin in the United States, but Li Qiang did not go, but continued to study in the university department of the university and majored in civil engineering. In June 1925, Li Qiang joined the Communist Youth League, and in August of the same year, he became a full member of the Communist Party of China. In February 1926, Li was appointed secretary of the Shanghai Pudong Department of the Communist Youth League. In May 1927, the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China was established in Wuhan. Zhou Enlai and Gu Shunzhang emphasized Li into the Special Section of the Central Committee, served as the chief of the Special Affairs Unit, and concurrently handled other special tasks assigned by the Central Committee. Two months later, Li Qiang was appointed chief of the traffic section, the chief of the intelligence section was Chen Geng and Gu Shunzhang was in charge of the affairs of the red team.
In October 1928, Zhou Enlai, who had finished the "Six Congresses" from Moscow, returned to Shanghai, and late one night, he came to the home of Li Qiang, chief of the fourth section of the Central Special Section (Traffic Section). Late that night, Zhou Enlai assigned Li Qiang the task of establishing a radio station by the central authorities.
At that time, Li Qiang had not been exposed to radio. Since accepting the task of creating a secret radio station, Li Qiang has shown his extraordinary self-study and hands-on ability, and he has read English magazines and books such as "Basic Principles of Radio" and quickly accumulated theoretical knowledge of radio. Li Qiang also purchased radio equipment tools and circuit drawings from the Asian American Radio Company at that time through business friends, and "borrowed" radio transceivers from the Dahua Instrument Company, which specialized in the production of transceivers, and dismantled and studied them overnight, drew sketches, and purchased parts accordingly. Some parts cannot be bought on the market, and Li Qiang will do it himself. At the end of the spring of 1929, Li Qiang finally successfully developed the first transceiver in the history of our party.
In the spring of 1931, Li Qiang went to the Soviet Union for work and further studies, and quickly became a top expert in the field of radio. In 1934, Li Qiang published a radio science paper in English, "Sending a Letter Diamond Antenna", which caused a shock in the Soviet radio community. In 1955, due to the theoretical research results of "sending letter diamond antennas", Li Qiang was elected as a member of the Faculty of Technical Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
After the founding of New China, Li Qiang successively served as director of the General Bureau of Telecommunications of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, the first director of the Broadcasting Bureau of the General Administration of Information, and the director of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Li Qiang died in Beijing in September 1996 at the age of 91.
Yuanming Lecture Hall, No. 434 Yan'an West Road
Immovable cultural relics number: 310106945190000239 Yuanming Lecture Hall Jing'an Temple Street of the Republic of China
Address: No. 434 Yan'an West Road
In 1933, Gu Lian, a wealthy merchant in Nanxun, undertook to donate an ancestral piece of real estate, namely a garden at the intersection of Yan'an West Road and Zhenning Road, to build a two-story hall for Master Yuanying to serve as a dojo for Master Yuanying to pass on the Hongdao in Shanghai. After the completion of the hall in 1934, it was named Shanghai Yuanming Lecture Hall.
The Yuanming Lecture Hall originally had two buildings, the north building has been demolished, the south building is a brick and wood temple building; the roof is a wooden structure, the eaves are upturned, and yellow glazed tiles are laid; the outer wall is yellow, and the roof ridge is decorated with glazed double dragon play beads.
The Yuanming Lecture Hall was occupied in 1957 and religious activities resumed in 1962. During the Cultural Revolution, it was forced to cease its activities and resumed again in 1983. In 1990, the new Shakya Rulai Temple was built, and the incense became increasingly popular.
601 Yan'an West Road
Excellent Historical Building No.: CN-J-030-III; Immovable Cultural Relics No.: 310105945190000025 British Barracks Commander's Residence Republic of China Jiangsu Road Street
Original Name/Former (Former) Unit: Zhenru Middle School; Current Name/Current Unit: North Building of Yan'an Middle School
Address: No. 601 Yan'an West Road
Number of floors: 2 floors, followed by 1 floor; Structure type: brick-concrete structure; Year of construction: 1917; Protection category: Class II
The north building of Yan'an Middle School, No. 601 Yan'an West Road
The north building of Yan'an Middle School, No. 601 Yan'an West Road, is a European-style three-storey Renaissance style building, the original building was two floors, and later added one floor. On the west side of the building is a castle-style tower with a toothed daughter wall, a colonnade on the south façade, and a concrete platform balustrade at the top of the gallery. The floor-to-ceiling windows and doors in the corridor are all semi-circular arches, and the outer walls are molded cement concrete blocks. Originally a Barracks barracks for the British Army in the Shanghai Public Concession, it was later used by the Japanese Army to imprison overseas Chinese from hostile countries. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it became a barracks for the Kuomintang army. In the autumn of 1949, it was converted into a classroom of Zhenru Middle School and is now Yan'an Junior High School.
Zhenru Middle School was officially established in August 1946 by the then Kuomintang senators Zhang Jiaxuan and Qian Songping. On the eve of the liberation of Shanghai, the Kuomintang military and political authorities wanted to use the Zhenru area as a battlefield to hold Shanghai, so they built a bunker here, and Zhenru Middle School was forced to evacuate to the city, and after the Zhenru Middle School's school building was destroyed, it had to be officially moved to No. 601 Yan'an West Road in 1949.
In 1954, Zhenru Middle School was renamed Yan'an Middle School, and the words "Shanghai Yan'an Middle School" were personally written by Comrade Deng Xiaoping. "Yan'an" is the holy land of the Chinese revolution, and being able to change "Zhenru" to "Yan'an" is a gift to this building and a high hope.
Dahua Hotel, No. 918-928, Yan'an West Road
Excellent Historic Building No.: CN-J-028-III; Immovable Cultural Relics No.: 310105945190000098 Dahua Apartment Republic of China Xinhua Road Street
Original Name/Former (Former) Unit: Dahua Apartment; Present Name/Current Unit: Dahua Hotel
Address: No. 918-928 West Yan'an Road
Number of floors: 10 floors; Type of structure: Steel-concrete structure; Year of construction: 1937; Protection category: Category III
No. 918-928, Yan'an West Road, was originally Dahua Apartment, and its English name was Hubertus Court. Hudak design, modern high-rise apartment, known as "small international hotel".
This modern building, the plane and façade design is simple and compact, there is no cumbersome decoration under the premise of meeting the functional needs, the exterior wall is lightly colored, and the main style of the building façade is formed by horizontal lines, which is a typical modern architectural style. After the apartment was completed in 1937, it was leased by the American Dahua Real Estate Investment Company. After liberation, Americans returned to China, and in 1953, they were managed by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, and used as a cadre dormitory and expert guest house. In 1968, it was taken over by the Second Bureau of Commerce of Shanghai Municipality and changed to Dahua Hotel. In 1978, it was taken over by the Municipal Administration of Organ Affairs and renamed Dahua Hotel, which is now part of Jin Jiang Group.
934 Yan'an West Road
Excellent Historical Building No.: CN-J-010-III; Immovable Cultural Relics No.: 310105945190000099 Former Site of Private Women's and Children's Hospital, Xinhua Road Street, Republic of China
Original Name/Former (Former) User Unit: Private Women's and Children's Hospital; Present Name/Current Use Unit: True Love Women's Hospital
Address: No. 934 Yan'an West Road
Number of floors: original 4 floors, added to 5 floors in the 1990s, partial to 6 floors; Structure type: reinforced concrete structure; Construction age: Built in 1935 / 1 floor in the west in the mid-90s; Conservation category: 3 categories
The building was designed by Zhuang Jun Architects and constructed by Chang Ji Construction Factory in a modernist style. The façade is well proportioned and simply decorated. Stairwell windows are arranged in a stepped shape.
The first women's and children's hospital with a certain scale founded by Chinese himself was founded by Dr. Sun Keji (Xiangtan, Hunan, 1892~1968), an expert in obstetrics and gynecology, and part of the medical equipment in the hospital was donated by the patient's family. The site of the hospital was originally a small villa by Song Ziwen, and because Sun Keji cured the gynecological disease of Song Ziwen's wife Zhang Leyi, Song Ziwen gave the land of Daxi Road to use after learning of Sun Keji's intention to build a hospital by himself. Dr. Sun's medical skills were excellent, and many rich families and celebrities at that time originally treated foreign doctors, but gradually sought treatment from Dr. Sun. At the beginning of liberation, Mayor Chen Yi's wife, Zhang Qian, also gave birth in this hospital. The hospital was merged with the private Tongde Women's and Children's Hospital in 1956 and became Shanghai Maternity Hospital. In 1958, it was transferred to Changning District and changed to Changning District Maternity Hospital, and in November 1960, it was merged with Changning District Maternity Hospital to become obstetrics and gynecology hospital, which is now Shanghai True Love Women's Hospital.
Lane 949, Yan'an West Road
No. 1, Lane 949, Yan'an West Road
Li Hongzhang, the former Minister of Trade and Commerce of Beiyang, had a granddaughter who lived in a garden house west of Yidingpan Road and along Daxi Road, which is now No. 1, Lane 949, Yan'an West Road. The building was built in the 1940s and was designed and built with the participation of The TushanWan Craft Institute. The building was built by the owner, a capitalist surnamed Zhang in Xiangshan, Zhejiang Province, to marry Li Hongzhang's granddaughter Li Shi. During the Cultural Revolution, the house was encroached upon and the Li family was expelled from the house. After the implementation of the policy after the "Cultural Revolution", it was returned to the Li family, who later sold the property rights of the house to the 711 Research Institute, which is now inhabited by 711 employees.
No. 5, Lane 949, Yan'an West Road
No. 7, Lane 949, Yan'an West Road
No. 9, Lane 949, Yan'an West Road
No. 25-47, Lane 949, Yan'an West Road
Excellent Historic Building No.: CN-J-027-IV; Immovable Cultural Relics No.: 310105945180000009 Lixi Road Guo's Residence Qing Jiangsu Road Street
Original Name/Former (Former) Unit: Guo's Garden Residence; Present Name/Current Unit: Residential
Address: No. 25-47, Lane 949, Yan'an West Road (except No. 37)
Number of floors: 2 floors; Structure type: brick and wood structure; Year of construction: 1910; Protection category: Class II
No. 25-47, Lane 949, Yan'an West Road, is a high-low, concave and convex Nordic building, originally belonging to Lixi Road, so it is called the big house of Lixi Road. This is the garden house where the Guo Biao brothers, the founder of Shanghai Yongan Textile and Department Store Group Company, lived in the early years.
The Guo Biao brothers arrived in Shanghai in the early 20th century, and the garden house on Lixi Road was purchased by them from a Swedish businessman shortly after arriving in Shanghai, where many of the Guo's brothers lived together. Originally, there was a large garden in front of the house, but in the 1980s, the housing management department built two six-storey houses in the garden, making the garden a small courtyard, and now it is difficult to put all the buildings into the camera frame.
Guo Le is the founder of Wing On Capital Group. In the 33rd year of Guangxu (1907), the Kwok brothers collected 160,000 Hong Kong dollars from overseas Chinese to establish Wing On Department Store in Hong Kong. After the victory of the Xinhai Revolution in 1917, Sun Yat-sen invited the Guo family to open a department store in Shanghai in order to prosper the market, and Guo Le, Guo Biao (Guo Le's cousin), Guo Jie, and Guo Quan set up Shanghai's most fashionable department store, Yong'an Company, and in the same year, Guo Biao's father-in-law Ma Yingbiao, opposite Yong'an Company, founded Xianshi Department Store (now a fashion company).
A group photo of the Guo brothers in front of the house that year
The longest time to live here should be the fourth lady of the Guo Biao family, Daisy Kwok. In 1909, Guo Wanying was born in Sydney, Australia. Her English name is Daisy. At the age of six, she traveled across Haiti to China with her family. This building was her family's home purchase during the most prosperous period of Yongan Company.
The middle school she attended after living here was the aristocratic school at that time, "Nakanishi Girls' School" is now the City Three Girls' High School, and the university was psychology at Yenching University. After graduating from university, at the age of 25, she married Wu Yuhua, a descendant of Lin Zexu and a graduate of Tsinghua University.
As the times changed, all the glory and wealth passed away with the wind, and she experienced widowhood, labor reform, humiliation and scolding, and poverty. But more than thirty years of suffering did not make her resentful, she remained beautiful, elegant, optimistic, and always maintained self-esteem and pride.
North façade of No. 25-47, Lane 949, Yan'an West Road
In 1998, Guo Wanying quietly left this world, drawing a satisfactory end to life. On the evening of September 25, 1998, mozart's "Requiem" was played in the anatomy laboratory of the Shanghai Medical University School of Medicine, praying that Guo Wanying, the fourth lady of Shanghai Yong'an Department Store, who was placed in the disc of the anatomy room, would receive eternal rest.
Guo Wanying is known as the "golden branches and jade leaves of Shanghai", and her legendary life allows us to see a real nobleman.
1146 Yan'an West Road
Immovable cultural relics number: 310105805200000180 The former site of the Penicillin Laboratory, Xinhua Road Street, People's Republic of China
Address: No. 1146 West Yan'an Road
Protection level: district-level cultural relics protection unit
In the former Shanghai No. 3 Pharmaceutical Factory at No. 1146 Yan'an West Road, there is a villa in the style of neoclassicism. Red flat tile four-slope roof, double-sloped tiger windows. The exterior walls are whitewashed with cement mortar and partially decorated with orange tiles. The square column semi-circular arched porch has a treasure bottle railing between the columns. It is a treasure place found during the third census of cultural relics in Changning District: the penicillin laboratory built by Mayor Chen Yi in 1950. After the approval of Mayor Chen Yi in 1950, the experiment of penicillin was successful through the research of Shi Yumin, a representative of the army, and Tong Cun, a medical expert, and since then, this experimental institute has become a base for cultivating antibiotic talents. In 1993, Shanghai No. 3 Pharmaceutical Factory was restructured and renamed and moved to Pudong, leaving a laboratory office building of the Penicillin Laboratory (Fanyuan No. 22) in situ. At present, the ground floor of the building is the China Antibiotic History Museum. According to the staff, the former site is the birthplace of antibiotics in New China and has immeasurable historical value.
No. 1262 Yan'an West Road (No. 60 Panyu Road) Sun Ke Residence
Excellent Historical Building No.: CN-J-003-I; Immovable Cultural Relics No.: 310105925190000107 Sun Ke Residence, Xinhua Road Street, Republic of China
Original name/original (former) use unit: Sun Ke Residence; current name/current use unit: Shanghai Institute of Biological Products Office Building
Address: No. 1262 West Yan'an Road (No. 60 Panyu Road)
Number of floors: 3 floors; Type of structure: brick and wood structure; Year of construction: 1931; Protection category: Class II
In the compound of the Shanghai Institute of Biological Products at No. 1262 West Yan'an Road, there is a garden house with a unique style and pleasant scenery, which was once the former residence of Sun Ke, the son of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. The bungalow used to be 22 Columbia Road (now 60 Fanyu Road).
The main building of Sunke residential building is Spanish architecture, both Baroque architectural style, its sloped roof is paved with red barrel tiles, the details of the cornice are exquisitely decorated, the door cover, window frame form is changeable, the use of various arches, the chimney on the top of the fireplace resembles the Italian Renaissance practice, the façade of the outer wall is simple and bright, and it has the style and style of Western modernist architecture. In front of the house is a typical spacious Chinese-style garden, surrounded by various precious trees, forming a dense shade, and the middle of the courtyard is paved with turf, arranged with a pool, and equipped with a lake stone barge, the scenery is pleasant.
This luxurious building was originally designed and built for hudak's own use. In 1929, Hudak was in trouble undertaking the Murtang project, and Sun Ke helped him, so Hudak did not live in this house for a day, but gave the house to Sun Ke at a low price.
In March 1949, Sun Ke resold the property before leaving Shanghai. After the founding of New China, the Shanghai Institute of Biological Products of the Ministry of Health became the new owner here.
No. 1262 Yan'an West Road (No. 60 Panyu Road) Columbia Association
Excellent Historic Building No.: CN-J-025-III; Immovable Cultural Relics No.: 310105945190000100 American Village Association, Xinhua Road Street, Republic of China
Original name/former (former) user unit: Columbia Federation; current name/current use unit: Shanghai Institute of Biological Products
Number of floors: 2 floors; Structure type: brick-concrete structure; Year of construction: 1931; Protection category: category 3
In 1925, American expatriates built the sprawling American Village Association south of Great West Road (now Yan'an West Road) in the western suburbs; the building was designed and built by Hashard, and was originally a social place for the U.S. Consulate for the British and American expatriates in Shanghai to gather leisure, entertainment, and life.
Navy Club, No. 1262 Yan'an West Road (No. 60 Panyu Road).
The Navy Club was built in the 1920s, along with the Columbia Country Club, as a venue for sports events and social gatherings between U.S. dignitaries and expatriates.
Today, Sun Ke Residence, Columbia Country Club, Navy Club and its Shanghai Institute of Biological Products have been magnificently transformed into "Shangsheng Xinshou" - a new urban business circle and all-weather vibrant community integrating office, entertainment, life and cultural functions.
Yan'an West Road Lane 1453 Daxi Villa
Excellent Historical Building No.: CN-J-028-IV; Immovable Cultural Relics No.: 310105945190000070 Daxi Villa, Huayang Road Street, Republic of China
Original Name/Former (Former) Unit: Great West Villa; Present Name/Current Unit: Residential
Address: No. 2-18, Lane 1453, Yan'an West Road
Number of floors: 3 floors; Type of structure: brick and wood structure; Year of construction: 1924; Protection category: category 3
The Great West Villa is called the Great West Villa because the original road was named Great West Road. It is a British-style fake three-storey high-end townhouse built by a British commercial real estate company here, with a total of 17 buildings. Brick and wood structure with flat tile steep slope roof.
Because the British taboo 13, so there is no house number 13 in the lane, the original house number to the 18th, the 19th is a new building that emerged later.
When it was first built, the residential areas were fully equipped with water, electricity and sanitation, and it was one of the few high-end residential areas in the western part of Shanghai at that time. After the fall of Shanghai in 1937, many traitors in the period of hostility and hypocrisy took advantage of the obscenity of the Japanese to plunder the people's fat and people's cream to make a fortune, and after the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, the Japanese began to take over the industries of Shanghai's British, American and other hostile countries, and the Great West Villa became the permanent production company industry set up by the Xingya Institute of the Japanese invasion of China.
At that time, the General Manager of the Chinese of Hengshan Company was the traitor Chen Shaofei. During the fall of Shanghai, he not only occupied civilian land for the Japanese, built airports and military facilities, but also was one of the main executives who took over the overseas Chinese real estate companies in Shanghai after the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chen Shaofei was a traitor, and her property should be confiscated in addition to the living expenses of her family members. But, the Kuomintang
The "Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Anhui Enemy and Counterfeit Industry Processing Bureau and the Central Trust Bureau's Enemy and Counterfeit Industry Clearance Office" did not receive a single piece of Chen's property. The original 17 garden houses of the Great West Villa had long been entrusted by Chen Shaofei to the former American businessman Puyi Real Estate Company for rent, which created conditions for him to change his appearance and hide his enemy property in the future.
At the same time, Chen Shaofei used Lu Mou, a lawyer who was a real estate broker, to bribe Sha Mou of the land affairs bureau at the time with 5 of them, and 12 of them were hidden assets in the name of fake transfers, changing the name of the household to the names of Chen Shaofei's relatives Lin Yueqing and Hong Ruixiang.
This matter was not discovered until the period of the Three Antis and the Fifth Anti, and in 1954 the people's government made a judgment: 17 buildings of the Great West Villa Chen Shaofei were traitorous and rebellious, except for the 5 buildings sold by the family of No. 2, 6 and 12 and the 15 and 17 sold by Sha Mou, which were not investigated because the buyer did not know, the rest were confiscated.
Therefore, at present, only five of the housing property rights of Daxi Villa are private property rights, and the rest are directly managed in Shanghai. After the confiscation, the property was uniformly distributed by the state to the employees with residence difficulties in the relevant enterprises, and some employees of the newly established National Key Optical Instrument Factory in 1953 had the honor of becoming new residents of The Great West Villa.
In the 1970s and 1980s, in order to solve the problem of residents' living difficulties, the local housing management department added layers to most of the directly managed public housing and the houses that were encroached upon during the Cultural Revolution at that time, changing from the original fake three-storey building to a three-story building, so from a high place, it can be found that only No. 15 still retains the original cascading slope roof.
The only surviving site of Guanghua University (historical photos before the renovation)
Immovable cultural relics number: 310105945190000149 Former site of Guanghua University, Tianshan Road Street, Republic of China
Address: No. 1882 West Yan'an Road
Completed in 1926, the Great West Road Gate of Guanghua University
Kwang Hua University is a well-known comprehensive private university in Shanghai during the Republic of China era, founded in June 1925 by 572 teachers and students who withdrew from St. John's University. In 1925, the May Thirtieth Massacre broke out in Shanghai, and people from all walks of life took to the streets. Teachers and students at St. John's University and the attached high school also organized a strike protest, but were blocked by the university. On June 3 (this day is set as Guanghua's school celebration day), 553 students and 19 Chinese teachers led by Meng Xiancheng and Qian Jibo collectively swore an oath to leave St. John's University, and more than 10 fresh college graduates declared that they would not accept the diploma issued by St. John's, and organized a leaving committee on the same day. On June 4, teachers and students who left the school gathered to discuss the establishment of their own schools, and their actions were supported by all sectors of society and parents of students, and they paid for the land. Student Wang Huazhao's father, Wang Fenghao, donated more than 60 acres of land in Fahua Township, Daxi Road, as the school foundation. At that time, Zhang Shouyong, as the governor of the local government (Huhai Daoyin), helped the students' patriotic behavior, and he donated 3,000 yuan to sponsor the "June 3rd" departing teachers and students of St. John's University to organize Guanghua University, and served as the president of the preparatory committee. Subsequently, Guanghua University set up a board of trustees, and elected Wang Fenghao, Zhu Yinjiang, Zhu Jingnong, Yu Rizhang, Zhao Jinqing, Qian Xinzhi, Zhang Shouyong, Wu Yunzhai, Huang Yanpei, Yu Qiaqing, etc. as the trustees, and elected Wang Fenghao as the chairman. Wang Zhengyan, Wang Pethui, Ma Xiangbo, Xiong Xiling, Gu Weijun, etc. were hired as honorary directors. On the recommendation of the Board of Directors, Zhang Shouyong served as the first president of Guanghua University. With the assistance of all parties, "Guanghua University" was officially established in just three months.
When the school opened in September 1925, the school site was rented at Xiafei Road (now Middle Huaihai Road).
In the first year, because the school building was still under construction, the house at No. 534 Xiafei Road (now Middle Huaihai Road) in the old French Concession was temporarily rented as a temporary school building, and the dormitory was divided into four places nearby.
Guanghua University Great West Road site model
In September 1926, it moved to the new site of Daxi Road, and on August 13, 1937, the "Songhu Anti-Japanese War" broke out, and in mid-November, the daxi road school building of Guanghua University was reduced to a war zone and was tragically destroyed by Japanese artillery fire (now only a bungalow of about 286 square meters remains, which has been transformed into an "alumni home" and a cultural relics protection point in Changning District).
At the beginning of 1938, Guanghua University moved to Chengdu to run its school in the midst of the Anti-Japanese War and established the Chengdu Branch of Guanghua University. At the end of 1941, the Shanghai headquarters was renamed the Chengzheng Literature Society and the Gezhili Business Society (moved to the third and eighth floors of the Huaqi Building at Present-day Hankou Road No. 422), and the Chengdu Branch assumed the functions of the general school. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, the Shanghai headquarters was restored, and the Chengdu branch was handed over to the local government of Sichuan Province to take over and renamed the private Chenghua University. In October 1952, the private Chenghua University was changed to a public university, and based on Chenghua University, it was transferred to 16 financial and economic colleges in the southwest region and the department of finance and economics of comprehensive universities to form the Sichuan Institute of Finance and Economics (now Southwest university of finance and economics). In August 2012, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics set the establishment time of Guanghua University on June 3, 1925.
In 1947, the private Shanghai Textile Industry College purchased the old site of Daxi Road of Guanghua University and relocated to this school, in 1950 it merged with three other institutions to form Shanghai Institute of Textile Technology, in June 1951, it selected the site of the former Guanghua University at the intersection of Yan'an West Road and Zhongshan West Road and the nearby farmland as the new campus base, and merged with the Department of Textile Engineering of Jiaotong University to form the East China Textile Institute of Technology (now Donghua University).
Before the adjustment of faculties, Guanghua University had three faculties of arts, sciences and commerce, and 14 departments of Chinese language, foreign languages, education, political society, law, mathematics, chemistry, biology, civil engineering, economics, business administration, accounting, banking, and railway engineering.
In October 1951, in addition to the departments of business, law and civil engineering, its liberal arts and sciences merged with the relevant departments of Daxia University to form East China Normal University, becoming the first normal university founded in New China. The archives of Guanghua University from 1925 to 1951 and some archives of Guanghua Affiliated High School were also transferred to East China Normal University. On March 10, 1985, the Alumni Association of Guanghua University was officially established in East China Normal University. Since the 60th anniversary of the university in 2011, East China Normal University has designated the founding day of Guanghua University (June 3) as the annual anniversary of the school.
Donghua University Alumni Home
The Alumni Home of Donghua University, No. 1882 West Yan'an Road, is the oldest building on campus and the only surviving site of Guanghua University. The bungalow was once used as a laboratory at Donghua University, but has since been left unused. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of Donghua University in 2011, with the donation of alumni, the alumni home was built, and this bungalow has carried new functions and new brilliance.
2558 Yan'an West Road (Buildings 1-4)
Excellent Historical Building No.: CN-J-023-III; Immovable Cultural Relics No.: 310105945190000131 Shu Zhaoxian House, Hongqiao Street, Republic of China
Original name/former (former) use unit: Residential, Ministry of Labor Bureau Tuberculosis Sanatorium; current name/current use unit: Shanghai Workers' Sanatorium
Address: No. 2558 West Yan'an Road (Building 1-4)
Number of floors: 3 floors; Structure type: brick-concrete structure; Year built: 1934; Protection category: class 3
The original house number of Shanghai Workers' Sanatorium was No. 75 Nonggong Road, and after the extension of Yan'an West Road to the west, the gate was changed to Yan'an West Road, and the door number was No. 2558. The Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions Workers' Sanatorium was established in 1952. At the time of its establishment, there were only 4 three-storey Baroque garden residential buildings.
This small bungalow was built in 1948 by Shu Zhaoxian, the capital of the Shanghai Sailing Brand Western Wire Factory, and the building is exceptionally exquisite, with a dark green glazed tile roof, many continuous arches, stranded rope columns, and Spanish architectural elements. Interiors feature teak floors, wooden staircases and wall skirts.
The architectural designer is Lan Rong itch, built by Shanghai Shunxingchang Construction Factory, due to the change of the times, close to liberation, so only a skeleton was built before the liberation, after the founding of New China, the Municipal Federation of Trade Unions is ready to run a workers' sanatorium here, organizing some unemployed workers at that time to continue to complete the interior decoration.
The garden area is very large, with a total of nearly 48,000 square meters of water surface, greenery, rockery, etc. All the buildings are hidden in the green trees, and there are more than 80 kinds of trees in the courtyard, more than 10,000 trees. Precious tree species include cedar, red maple, five-needle pine, ginkgo biloba, eight immortals, sea nymphs, golden laurel, silver laurel, etc., the golden autumn season flowers are overflowing, as intoxicating as possible, the flowers are flourishing throughout the year. There are also a large number of plums, peaches, apricots, oranges, persimmons, loquats, grapes and other melons and fruits in the courtyard.
The cherry blossoms sent by friends in Osaka City, Japan, bloom when the flowers bloom. After the founding of New China, the people's government changed this private residence into a place dedicated to short-term recuperation of model workers and advanced workers, and carried out preventive treatment for workers' occupational diseases, which fully reflected the people's government's care for workers and the status of workers' ownership.