Lu Xun’s Former Residences

The house at 19 Gongmenkou Ertiao near Fuchengmen in Xicheng District was designed and rebuilt by Lu Xun in the spring of 1924. He moved here in May of the same year where he lived until August 1926 when he left Beijing for the south. In May 1929 and November 1932, he also lived here when he came to Beijing from Shanghai to see his mother.

Lu Xun's Former Residences

Lu Xun was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (1881- 1936), a native of Shaoxing in Zhejiang Province and a well-known writer and thinker in China's modern history. Many of Lu Xun writings were writ- ten here, including Bad Luck, More Bad Luck, three volumes of Wild Grass, Wandering, Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk, and some of the ar- ticles in The Grave.