Eileen Chang's former residence

This is the former residence of the famous writer Zhang Ailing. It was built in the early 1930s as a French apartment building, now known as Changde apartment. Zhang Ailing once lived in Room 601 of this building for about five years. Her witty "notes on Apartment Life" is about the joy and worry in this building.

Eileen Chang's former residence

Eileen Chang's former residence in Shanghai was founded in 1933.

Zhang Ailing, a modern Chinese writer, whose real name is Zhang Ying, was born in a western style mansion built in the late Qing Dynasty at 313 Maigen road in the Western District of Shanghai public concession. Zhang Ailing created a large number of literary works all her life. Her letters are also studied as part of her works.

Traffic information

Take No.113 bus from Shanghai railway station, pass 6 stops, get off at Jing'an Temple, and then go to no.195 Changde Road.

Subway nearby: Line 7, line 2.

Introduction to scenic spots

Apartment is the most ideal place to escape. People who are tired of metropolises are always thinking about the peaceful and quiet countryside. They are looking forward to the day when they can go back to the fields, raise bees, grow vegetables, and enjoy a little happiness. But they don't know that buying half a kilo of bacon in the countryside will cause a lot of gossip. At the top of the apartment house, you can even stand at the window and change clothes! ——Zhang Ailing's notes on Apartment Life

Changde apartment, no.195 Changde Road, Shanghai, is undoubtedly a very feminine building. The wall of meat powder mixed with brown lines is mostly a matter of time. This building seems to have some dark colors, as if it is stained with gray Rouge buttons used by women in the past. A row of Wutong trees before the building is still full of vitality.

This house is located in the busy street near Jing'an Temple. It is the former residence of talented woman Eileen Chang, whose name was Edinburgh house at that time. Founded in 1933, completed in 1936, funded by Italian lawyer and real estate businessman raoulphis. Changde Road where the apartment is located, formerly known as Hede road.

This apartment is where Zhang Ailing and her Aunt Zhang MaoYuan live together. Each of them lives in one room. They have their own bedroom and bathroom, and the kitchen is connected in the middle. If they want to meet, they can open the door, but if they don't want to meet, they can also go in and out through the fire door, which can be regarded as private space. At that time, it was also Eileen Chang's last residence in Shanghai. Room 51 in 1939, room 65 after 1942, until 1948. Her witty "notes on Apartment Life" is about the joy and worry in this building. Here, Zhang Ailing completed her novels "love in a fallen city", "aloe dust - the first incense", "aloe dust - the second incense", "Golden Lock", "blockade", "Heart Sutra" and "flower withering". During this period, another important story happened, that is, Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng met, fell in love and got married secretly.

"Since coal is expensive, hot water has become a pure decoration In Meiyu season, the water in front of the gate is the deepest. The streets are completely dry. We have to pay rickshaws to cross the white moat There are often children skating in the roof garden, filing and filing, listening to our teeth sour in the tooth kernel, like green pomegranate seeds, picking and falling, "she wrote.

However, it seems that there is more complaining in the complaining, such as "a rainy evening, when I go out, I forget to close the window, come back to open the door, the rain in a room is wet, and look out, it is a blue and lustiless night". For example, "mention insects," * six flies on the floor, and almost two mosquitoes disappear. If they are imaginative, they will faint when they fly to the window and look down It's funny enough to make people laugh. After all, there is nothing to care about, "long is suffering, short is life.".

If you gently open the door, you can see the elevator manager sitting in the dark hall. The old Austin elevator often mentioned by Eileen Chang is painted with dazzling green paint.

The elevator went up to the sixth floor, where Hu Lancheng asked to see Zhang Ailing. Because the knock should not, Hu from the crack in the door into a piece of paper, a bad relationship spread.

For Eileen Chang, love can only be fun and quiet, even ignoring Hu Lancheng's work for the Japanese. When Hu left Shanghai, Zhang said to her, "you can change your name to Zhang Qian or Zhang Zhao. At the end of the world, I will always lead you and recruit you.". Hu Lancheng seems to have no intention of staying together for life. In November 1946, Hu Lancheng quietly returned to Zhang Ailing's apartment in Shanghai and stayed for a night. The next morning I went to say goodbye to Zhang Ailing.

After Hu Lancheng left, Eileen Chang could not extricate herself from the old days in her old apartment. As she once said, "here I will just wither."

In her later years, Zhang Ailing lived in a secluded society, isolated from the world, and kept little contact with a few closely related people. Some fans of Zhang Ailing have no way to vent their obsession with Zhang De, so they explore the garbage cans near Zhang Jia to reflect Zhang Ailing's life preferences and daily affairs with the contents of garbage. When Zhang Ailing knew about it, she immediately moved. She had little contact with the world, and lived a more isolated life. She was not found by the apartment administrator until a person died in the apartment a few days later.

Address: 195 Changde Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai

Longitude: 121.44760038773

Latitude: 31.224728030851

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