Beijing Celebrities Residences

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- Beijing Celebrities Residences Tour - Beijing Theme Tour - Beijing Former Residences of Celebrities Tour - Many Beijing former residences of "Celebrities" are well preserved and open to the public. Some are listed as the historic sites under city-level or national level protection. "Celebrities" here are the well-known persons who lived and actively worked in the most of the 20th century. - The "Celebrities" are classified into three categories: famous China revolutionaries, famous China writers or famous China historians. Their former residences attract much attention from the public either because of their unique life experiences or because of their unique residences featuring typical Beijing traditional courtyard - siheyuan.

- The Beijing celebrities residences tour will give you more insight information about Beijing China and help you understand Beijing and its people better. - Attractions: the Former Residence of Soong Ching Ling, Former Residence of Mei Lanfang, the former residence of Guo Moruo, Lu Xun - Soong Ching Ling(1890-1981) was late Honorary Chairman of the People's Republic of China, be known as "the Mother of China" by both the main political parties, the Kuomintang and the Communists. She was one of the Soong sisters - three sisters whose husbands had great impact on China's development in the early 20th century. - Li Dazhao (Oct 29, 1888 - April 28, 1927) was a Chinese intellectual who co-founded the Communist Party of China with Chen Duxiu in 1921. Li was one of Mao's earliest and most prominent influences. Under the leadership of Li and Chen, the CPC developed a close relationship with the Soviet controlled Comintern. At the direction of the Comintern, Li and Chen were inducted into the Kuomintang in 1922. Li was elected to the KMT's Central Executive Committee in 1924. Tensions between the Comintern, the KMT, and the CPC presented opportunities for political intrigue and opportunism. With the outbreak of the Chinese Civil War, Li was captured during a raid on the Soviet embassy in Peking (Beijing) and, with nineteen others, he was executed on the orders of the warlord Zhang Zuolin on April 28, 1927.

- Pick-up point and time: Your Hotel between around 9:00am - Finishing point and time: Your Hotel around 4:00pm - Service: Entrance fees + Private tour guide - Price: Starting from US$40 p/p - How to get there: Bus No.s 5, 27, 44 and 55; - Qi Baishi (1864-1957) was originally called Qi Chunzhi and was a carpenter in his early years. At the age of 27, he started to learn how to paint and write poems. In 1956, the World Peace Council awarded him its international Peace Award. In 1963, he was included on a list of "World Cultural Celebrities". - How to get there: Bus No.7, 38 - Mao Dun(1896-1981) was one of great literary figures of modern China. He was the author of" Midnight", "Rainbow "and "Spring Silkworms", representative novels of the Realist tradition. He also translated famous works from foreign languages, and engaged in a wide range of other literary activities. Mao Dun's original name was Shen Dehong.and he was a native of Tongxiang in Zhejiang Province. In his later years, Mao Dun contributed all the payments he received for his works,a total of 250,000yuan (about US$30,120) to set up the Mao Dun Literary Award to encourage the production of novels.