Duolun Road Cultural Street
An L-shaped, 550-meter-long small street in Hongkou District, hailed as "one Duolun Road, a hundred years of Shanghai"
Visitor info
- Opening hours
- Open all day
- Ticket
- Free
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An L-shaped, 550-meter-long small street in Hongkou District, hailed as "one Duolun Road, a hundred years of Shanghai." In the 1920s and 1930s, left-wing writers such as Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Guo Moruo, and Ye Shengtao lived and gathered here; Gongfei Café was where the League of Left-Wing Writers was prepared, and the founding congress of the League of Chinese Left-Wing Writers was held nearby in 1930. Hongde Church (built in 1928) on the street is one of China's rare palace-style Christian churches, and the Islamic-style dome of Kong's Mansion is another architectural marvel; now opened up as a Cultural Celebrities Street, with secondhand book stalls, art galleries, and rows of celebrity statues lining the road — a walking route for touching Shanghai's cultural heritage.
Getting there: Metro Line 3, Dongbaoxing Road Station
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