Hours 9am-5pm (to 4:30pm in winter)

Address Hou Hai Bei Yan 46

Location Xi Cheng Qu (northeast shore of Hou Hai)

Transportation Metro: Jishui Tan (218, exit B)

Phone 010/6404-4205

Prices Admission ¥20 ($2.50)

Frommer's Review


Song Qingling is as close as you'll get to a modern Chinese Communist saint -- wealthy, obsessed with children, and a friend of Mao to boot. She married Sun Yat-sen, 30 years her senior, a diminutive man acknowledged as the "father of modern China" on both sides of the Taiwan Strait (even though he was in Denver during the 1911 Revolution). Qingling showed some sympathy to the Communist cause only after her husband's death in 1925. Her younger sister married Chiang Kai-shek (leader of the Nationalist Party and China's public enemy no. 1 until his death in 1975), while Qingling nearly died during the "white terror" of 1927 when the Nationalist Party was purged of Communist sympathizers. Mao rewarded Qingling for her loyalty by granting her this mansion in 1963, and she lived here until her death in 1981, devoting much time to education. The grounds are well-kept, making them the most popular spot in Beijing for soon-to-be-weds to be photographed. The exhibition on her life seems to contain nearly every article of clothing she wore and every letter she wrote. It's all a little too perfect.

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. Milu Yuan (Milu Park) . Factory 798 (Qijiuba Gongchang) . Wu Men (Meridian Gate) . Wanshou Si . Tian Yi Mu . Taihe Men (Gate of Great Harmony) . Taihe Dian (Hall of Great Harmony) . Tai Miao . Song Qingling Guju . Seventeen-Arch Bridge (Shiqi Kong Qiao) . Ri Tan Gongyuan (Ri Tan Park) . Renshou Dian (Hall of Benevolence and Longevity) . Zhonghe Dian (Hall of Middle Harmony) . Ming City Wall Park

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