Ba Jin's Former Residence (Ba Jin's Former Home)

　　   The famous writer Ba Jin lived on the third floor of this house for 18 years starting in 1937. Here, he wrote the latter two volumes of his representative work, the "Torrents Trilogy" — "Spring" and "Autumn" — as well as the classic novel "Cold Nights." After the liberation, he also penned the article "We Met with Commander Peng Dehuai" and compiled the short story collection "Stories of Heroes," among others.

　　

　　   Address: No. 113, Wukang Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai

　　   Type: Celebrity Former Residence

　　   Recommended visiting time: 1–2 hours

　　   Phone: 021-33685656

　　   Official website: http://www.bjwxg.cn

　　   Opening hours:

　　   Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00–16:30; closed on Mondays.

　　   Ticket information:

　　   Free admission.

　　Ba Jin (1904~2005)　　   Ba Jin (November 25, 1904 – October 17, 2005), originally named Li Yaotang, also used pen names such as Peigan, Jile, Heilang, and Chunfeng, with the courtesy name Fugan. An ethnic Han from Chengdu, Sichuan, with ancestral roots in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, he was a Chinese writer, translator, social activist, and non-partisan patriotic democrat. Born in 1904 into a feudal bureaucratic family in Chengdu, Sichuan, Ba Jin was deeply influenced by progressive ideas after the May Fourth Movement, which inspired his personal struggle against feudalism. In 1923, he left home to study in Shanghai, Nanjing, and other places, thus beginning his half-century-long literary career... Details+