Former Site of Yangtze Hotel

Former Site of Yangtze Hotel

The former site of Yangtze Hotel is a cultural relic protection unit of Jiangsu Province.

The former site of Yangtze Hotel is located at No. 2 Baoshan Street, currently at No. 599 Zhongshan North Road.

The Yangtze Hotel was a castle-style Western building constructed in 1912 by the British man E. A. Bennett. It covers an area of 3,000 square meters and currently consists of one three-story brick-and-wood structure with 43 rooms, two two-story buildings with 32 rooms, and seven single-story houses. The entire building was constructed using bricks from the Ming city wall, faces south with a northern orientation, and features wooden stairs, wooden floors, wooden roof trusses, and a corrugated iron roof with steep pitches. The building has a total floor area of 2,429 square meters. On April 4, 1933, Soong Ching-ling led a delegation from the "China League for the Protection of Civil Rights" to Nanjing specifically to rescue prominent revolutionaries such as Chen Geng, Luo Dengxian, Liao Chengzhi, Chen Zhaoying, and Yu Wenhua. Upon arriving in Nanjing on the 5th, to avoid surveillance by Kuomintang secret agents, she chose to stay at the Yangtze Hotel, which was operated by the British and considered relatively safe. Wang Jingwei and Luo Wengan visited Soong Ching-ling at the hotel. In the name of the China League for the Protection of Civil Rights, Soong Ching-ling submitted four demands in writing to the Kuomintang authorities. That evening, Soong Ching-ling and her group visited Chen, Luo, Chen, and Yu, among others, at the Nanjing Garrison Command. On the same day, Soong also went to the Jiangsu First Prison at Dashi Bridge in Nanjing to visit and offer consolation to the international couple, Mr. and Mrs. Noulens. After the liberation of Nanjing, the hotel ceased operations in 1950.

The former site of Yangtze Hotel was listed as a cultural relic protection unit of Jiangsu Province in 2002.

Further Reading:

· Fifth Batch of Cultural Relic Protection Units of Jiangsu Province