Zhang Pu Residence 张溥宅第Zhāng Pǔ Zháidì

About Zhang Pu Residence

A late-Ming house on Ximen Street in Taicang's old town, built in the Tianqi and Chongzhen reigns (1621–1644) by Zhang Fuzhi, uncle of the writer Zhang Pu (1602–1641), who led the Restoration Society (Fushe), an influential late-Ming association of scholars. Three courtyards of five-bay, two-storey halls are joined by upper-floor galleries into a typical Jiangnan 'running-horse' house, and the society's members met here.

How to get to Zhang Pu Residence

On Ximen Street in the old town of Taicang, about 50 km east of central Suzhou by road or high-speed train, next to the Yuan-era Gao Bridge.

Nearby

• Former French Concession 原法租界 40 km
  Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk
• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 40 km
  Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East
• Zhouzhuang 周庄古镇 40 km
  Jiangnan's most famous water town, famed for its Twin Bridges and merchant halls
• Lujiazui 陆家嘴 40 km
  Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite
• The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 40 km
  1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other

Also within 20 km: Yuan-Dynasty Stone Arch Bridges of Taicang 太仓石拱桥 (under 10 km), Taicang Modern Agricultural Park (Rose Manor) 太仓现代农业园 (10 km), Shaxi Ancient Town 沙溪古镇 (10 km), Jiading Old Town (Zhouqiao) 嘉定州桥 (20 km), Tinglin Park, Kunshan 亭林园 (20 km), Shanghai International Circuit 上海国际赛车场 (20 km).

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