Soong Ching-ling Memorial Residence (Shanghai)

[2] It covers a land area of 4,333 square metres (46,640 sq ft), and comprises a white three-story building with front and back yards.

[citation needed] After the end of the Sino-Japanese War in 1945, Soong Ching-ling donated her residence, located at 29 rue Molière (present-day Xiangshan Road), to the government of the Republic of China as a memorial to her deceased husband, President Sun Yat-sen.[citation needed] In return, the government conferred this house on her.

In the house, Song met not only senior CPC leaders, including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Chen Yi and Deng Yingchao, but also foreign statesmen, such as Sukarno, Kim Il Sung, Kliment Voroshilov, U Nu, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

On October 22 of that year, the memorial residence was accredited with being a Shanghai Municipal Preserved Cultural Relic by the city government.

[citation needed] Among them, there are pictures, letters, Song's college diploma, collected books, daily utensils, presents from state activities, and also some articles belonging to her relatives.

View from the garden of the former residence of Soong Ching-ling , wife of Sun Yat-sen , in Shanghai .
Exhibition hall building at Song Ching Ling's former residence in Shanghai, with a sculpture of Song Ching Ling in front.