Mao Dun’s Former Residences

This is located at 13 Houyuan’ensi Hutong, Jiaodaokou in Dongcheng District. Mao Dun lived here from 1974 until his death.

Mao Dun’s Former Residences

Mao Dun (1896-1981) was the pen name of Shen Dehong,also known as Shen Yanbing, a native of Tongxiang in Zhejiang Province. He was a writer and one of the forerunners of China’ s progressive modern literature. A student of Peking University, he joined the May Fourth Movement in 1919 and joined the Communist Party of China in 1921. After 1949, he held the positions of the minister of culture, vice-chairman of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and chairman of the Writers’Association.

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.

Lin Zexu’s Former Residences

Located at 31 Jiajia Hutong in Xuanwu District, this was originally Puyang Guild Hall.

Lin Zexu (1785-1850) held the position of viceroy of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces during the Qing Dynasty. He was a famous patriot who launched the burning of opium and led an anti-drug campaign in the fighting against foreign aggression. This residence was his home when he came to hold a post in Beijing in 1831, where he lived for six years.

Lin Zexu's Former Residences

Ronglu’s Former Residences

Located at 3 & 5 Ju'er Hutong and 6 Shoubi Hutong south of Jiaodaokou in Dongcheng district, this was Ronglu's home in Beijing.

Ronglu's Former Residences

Ronglu（1836-1903）, was a Manchu White Bannerman surnamed Gua'erjia， and was once the most powerful official during the reign period of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. He served as the minister of works, minister of war, viceroy of Zhili and supreme commander of the Beiyang Army, grant min- ister of state, great adademician in the Hall of Literary Glory.

Former Residence of Empress Wanrong

(wife of China's last emperor)

Located at 35 & 37 Mao'er Hutong in Dongcheng District, this residence was the home of Empress Guobuluo Wanrong before she married Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

Former Residence of Empress Wanrong

Wanrong (1906-45) married Emperor Puyi in 1922, China's last emperor who later abdicated his throne. Her father once was minister of impe- rial household department after Puyi abdicated. The quadrangle was originally an ordinary house. After Wanrong was conferred the title of empress, her father was granted the title of Duke of Cheng' en in the third grade. The house was upgraded as the Mansion of Duke of Cheng'en and was expanded as the residence of the empress.

Kang Youwei’s Former Residences

Located at 43 Mishi Hutong in Xuanwu District, this was origi- nally Nanhai Guild Hall of Guangdong Province. Kang Youwei lived in the central yard of its northern side courtyard where there used to be seven trees, hence the name“Seven-Tree House.”The three western rooms in the house were bed- rooms, the four ones in the north were his study among which there is one in the shape of a boat, called by Kang as “Hanmanfang (Boat Flowing on Sweat).”From the time when Kang came to Beijing to take the imperial examination in 1882 to 1898 when the Reformist Movement failed, Kang lived in the Seven-Tree House of the Nanhai Guild Hall.

Kang Youwei’s Former Residences

Kang Youwei（1858-1927）, a native of Nanhai in Guangdong Province, was a palace graduate in Emperor Guangxu’s reign and the leader of the reform movement at the end of the Qing Dynasty. He submitted written petitions seven times to Em- peror Guangxu, calling for a political reform.

Yang Jiaoshan Memorial Temple (Songyun Hut)

Yang Jiaoshan’s former residence in Beijing is located at 12 Dazhiqiao Hutong, Xuanwumenwai Dajie in Xuanwu District, which was originally called Songyun Hut.

Yang Jiaoshan Memorial Temple (Songyun Hut)

Yang Jiaoshan (1516-55) was originally named Yang Jisheng. A native of Rongcheng in Hebei Province, he was a renowned honest and loyal high official of the Ming Dynasty, but was executed at the age of 40 by the corrupt prime minister Yan Song in the 34th year of Emperor Jiajing’s reign (r.1522-1566). A memorial temple was built at his residence, Songyun Thatched Hut, during the reign period of Qing Emperor Qianlong. In 1895 after the Qing government signed the hu- miliating Treaty of Shimonoseki, some 200 people headed by Kang Youwei gathered at Songyun Thatched Hut and made the Joint Petition of Imperial Examination Candidates to the Emperor to oppose the signing of the treaty and to institute reforms, which marked the beginning of the famous Reform- ist Movement in modern Chinese history.