Former Residence of Luxun

What was originally Hongkou Park (1905), once a foreigners' park opened to the Chinese only in 1928, has been renamed for China's best-known 20th-century writer, Lu Xun (1881-1936), who lived in this neighborhood from 1927 until his death. Known as the "father of modern Chinese literature" because of his role in developing the modern style of Chinese prose as well as in helping simplify the Chinese script, Lu Xun was a prolific writer who translated science-fiction novels into Chinese just as easily as he penned scathing critiques of Confucianism and the alternately submissive and arrogant Chinese character. Extolled as a political revolutionary (Mao Zedong penned an inscription on Lu Xun's tomb which lies at the north end of the park), Lu Xun was himself deliberately never a member of the Communist party. One can only imagine what his scathing pen would have had to say about China's current headlong rush into capitalism.

At the eastern end of the park is a memorial hall devoted to his life, the Lu Xun Jinianguan. The main exhibit room on the second floor displays his many books and old photographs, as well as his hat, goatskin gown, and death mask. Signs are in English. A bookstore here sells English-language copies of some of his most famous works, such as The Story of Ah Q. A 10-minute walk east of the park, Lu Xun's Former Residence is a three-story brick house where he lived from 1933 to his death, and largely decorated as it was then. Exhibits here include an original writing brush as well as a clock marking his exact time of death on October 19, 1936，5:25am.

Add: 9, Lane 132, Shanyin Rd., Shanghai

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Visiting Hours: 9:00-16:00

Located at 9, Da Lu Xin Cun, Shanyin Rd., Hongkou District, Luxun's former residence is a three-story building with red bricks and tiles in which Luxun lived from April 1933 till his death in October 1936. It was here where Luxun had written many revolutionary and satiric exposes. Luxun's former residence is a Shanghai Municipal Preserved Building.

Duolun Road 

Duolun Road (formerly named Doulean Road) is a small street in Shanghai, near the North Sichuan Road. It is stated that "a hundred years' of Shanghai history has been witnessed in Duolun Road, a very small street". There were many renowned Scholars and literary men lived in this small street in early 20 century. Such as, the literary giants, Luxun, Maodun, Guo mo-ruo and Ye sheng-tao etc. and the authors of "The Left-wing Authors Alien, for example, Ding Lin and Rou Shi, and their literary activities instituted this place-- "a key position of modern literature", in the meanwhile, it was endowed with "an open museum of Shanghai-style construction" by the far-famed Gongfei Café (relic) and Honde Hall, and the residences with various styles, for instance, Kong (xiang-xi) Residence, Bai (Chong-xi) Residence and Tang (En-bo) Residence. Above all, a strong flavor of culture has been formed in this street by famous men of letters such as, Qu Qiubai, Chen Wangdao, Zhao Shiyan and Uchiyama Kanzo (Japanese), and by the major cultural spots e.g. Jinyun Lane, Arts University of China, Arts Drama Troupe and many other residences of celebrities and many other lanes in old Shanghai fashion, whenever people who linger on this road to enjoy themselves so much as to forget to go home.