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On the location of a former brick factory now stands the Xujiahui Park, which contains a man-made meandering brook (modelling in miniature the course of the Huangpu River), a lake with two black swans, basketball courts, and a children's playground.
Xujiahui is a locality in Shanghai. It is a historic area of commerce and culture administratively within Xuhui District, which is named after the locality. The area is a well-known precinct for shopping and entertainment in Shanghai. It is served by the Xujiahui Station of the Shanghai Metro.
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The Red House, which once housed the Pathé China record company, is at the edge of Xujiahui Park.
上海宋庆龄故居
Soong Ching-ling was Sun Yat-sen's wife and a significant political figure in her own right.
Like her father, brothers and sisters, she went to an American university (Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia), spoke excellent English, and was deeply involved in Kuomintang politics prior to the Kuomintang defeat in 1949. She negotiated Chiang Kai Shek's release when he was locked up during the Xi'an Incident. Unlike her siblings (a sister married Chiang Kai Shek, and both all three brothers and the other sister's husband were high-ranking officials in his government), she remained in mainland China and worked with Mao's government after 1949. Much state business took place at the residence.
Today the house is a museum with many artifacts and photos. The grounds are very well maintained and there's a garage with a few formerly state-used cars as well. Gift shop.
A large road junction with Xujiahui metro station (lines , and ) underneath it.
Small, free museum exhibition at Shanghai Xujiahui station between exits 5 and 7. The exhibits are changed several times a year and sometimes English explanations are included. The history or tradition-related items are brought from nearby museums.
SJTU or "Jiaoda"
This is one of China's top technical schools. The new main campus is in Minhang, but the original campus in the French Concession is still used; it now does mainly continuing education courses such as Chinese-for-foreigners or MBA-for-executives
The area was under renovation in 2018, but the cathedral is open. Don't wear slippers or anything that resembles it, they are strict on decent outfit rules.