Former Residence of Ba Jin

Front door of the house.
View of the house from the garden.
Plaque at the residence.

The Former Residence of Ba Jin (Chinese: 巴金故居), located at 113 Wukang Road in the Xuhui District of Shanghai, China, was the residence of the Chinese writer Ba Jin (1904–2005).[1] Located in the west part of the Shanghai French Concession area, it was originally built in 1923 in a Spanish style. Ba Jin lived there from 1955.[2]

The residence opened to the public as a writer's home museum in December 2011.[3][4] The house contains a collection of books, manuscripts, and photographs.[2]

Ba Jin's wife, Xiao, died of cancer in 1972 during the time of the Cultural Revolution, having been denied medical treatment.[5] He kept her urn by his bed in the house.[4] In his later years, his granddaughter, Duan Duan, lived with him, sleeping in the same bedroom. He found reading newspapers increasingly difficult, so he listened to the news on the radio in the morning and on television in the lounge each evening.[6]

  1. ^ "巴金故居 — Former Residence of Ba Jin". Foursquare. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  2. ^ a b Pitts, Christopher (April 2013). "Ba Jin's Former Residence". Pocket Shanghai (3rd ed.). Lonely Planet. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-74179-963-7.
  3. ^ "Ba Jin residence offers new insight into famous writer's work and life" (PDF). Xuhui News. Vol. 1, no. 5. 26 December 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Home of Ba Jin opens to public". Shanghai Daily. December 2011. Archived from the original on 1 November 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  5. ^ "Ba Jin's Former Residence". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  6. ^ Ba Jin (15 June 1986). "A Museum of the "Cultural Revolution"". Virtual Museum of the "Cultural Revolution. Retrieved 5 October 2013.