Residents included famous actors and actresses Wu Yin, Wang Renmei, Qin Yi, Zhao Dan, Sun Daolin, Wang Wenjuan, Shangguan Yunzhu, and actor/director Zheng Junli.

[5] Sun Daolin lived in the building for 30 years with his wife Wang Wenjuan, until his death in 2007.

[2] Soong Ching-ling, the widow of President Sun Yat-sen, lived opposite the building across Huaihai Road.

[2] During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), the Red Guards renamed the building Anti-Revisionist Tower,[6][5] but local residents referred to it as "The Diving Board" because of the dozens of suicides by intellectuals and others who were persecuted as "state enemies".

[3] It appears in "Death at the Wukang Mansion" in Dear Chrysanthemums (Scribner, 2023), a novel in stories by writer, poet, translator, and musician Fiona Sze-Lorrain.