Song qingling mausoleum crypt

Building in Xuhui District, China

The Soong Ching Ling Memorial Residence (Chinese: 宋庆龄故居), located at 1843 Middle Huaihai Road, Xuhui District, is the former residence of Soong Ching-ling (wife of Sun Yat-sen and later Vice-President and Honorary President of the People's Republic of China) in Shanghai, China, from 1948 to 1963.^[1] It is in the west part of the former Shanghai French Concession area and was built in the 1920s by an American shipping captain, Leo R.

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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]}

History

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