Soong Ching-ling Memorial Residence 上海宋庆龄故居Shànghǎi Sòng Qìnglíng Gùjū

About Soong Ching-ling Memorial Residence

The 1920s garden villa at 1843 Middle Huaihai Road, built for a foreign shipowner, that was the Shanghai home from 1948 of Soong Ching-ling, Sun Yat-sen's widow and later Honorary President of the People's Republic. It became a memorial after her death in 1981 and keeps the rooms and furniture as they were in her lifetime, set in front and back gardens.

How to get to Soong Ching-ling Memorial Residence

On Middle Huaihai Road in Xuhui District, about 450 m from Exit 1 of Jiao Tong University station (Lines 10 and 11). Closed on Mondays except public holidays.

Nearby

• Former French Concession 原法租界 under 10 km
  Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk
• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 under 10 km
  Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East
• Yu Garden & City God Temple 豫园与城隍庙 under 10 km
  A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple
• The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 under 10 km
  1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other
• Lujiazui 陆家嘴 under 10 km
  Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite

Also within 20 km: Early Buildings of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Xuhui Campus) 上海交通大学早期建筑 (under 10 km), Xujiahui Origin heritage area 徐家汇源 (under 10 km), St. Ignatius Cathedral 徐家汇天主堂 (under 10 km), Tomb of Xu Guangqi 徐光启墓 (under 10 km), Marble Hall (China Welfare Institute Children's Palace) 中福会少年宫 (under 10 km), Moller Villa 马勒别墅 (under 10 km).

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