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37-654: The museum was established in 1956 in the Shanghai Cotton Exchange Building, a classical British structure built in 1923. It was located at 260 East Yan'an Road in Huangpu District , near the intersection of South Henan Road. It was designated a Heritage Building by the Shanghai Municipal Government in 1994. However, the Yan'an Elevated Road has since been constructed within meters in front of

74-570: A Yellow River mammoth , a giant salamander , a giant panda , and a Yangtze alligator . The largest exhibit is a 140-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton of Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis Young et Zhao from Sichuan Province , which is over four stories high. The museum also has two mummies and several human embryos . 31°14′13″N 121°27′30″E  /  31.23694°N 121.45833°E  / 31.23694; 121.45833 East Yan%27an Road Yan'an Road ( Chinese : 延安路 , Yán'ān Lù ; Shanghainese : Yi'ue Lu )

111-508: A center of education. The Aurora University was founded by the Jesuits in Xujiahui. The imperial Nanyang Public School system was founded in Xujiahui at the end of the 19th century, and the historic main campus of its most prominent descendent school, Jiao Tong University , one of Shanghai's most prestigious, is still located in Xujiahui. Fudan University , also one of Shanghai's most prestigious,

148-658: A golf club which is now the Shanghai Zoo . At its western end was a small aerodrome. Today, the road passes through several clusters of large commercial buildings including a large number of hotels, as well as several retreats set in large green spaces reserved for the use of the Communist Party and army elites. It was expanded to Huqingping Highway in 1995 alongside the Xuhong Railway from Gubei Road at Hongqiao Road. At its western end, it stops at Huqingping Highway (as well as

185-595: A group of historic skyscrapers dating from the early 20th century. Further west, the road is today mainly lined with large contemporary skyscrapers, as well as several government office buildings. Other important historic sites along Yan'an Road East include the Shanghai Natural History Museum , the Great World entertainment centre, and the Shanghai Concert Hall . Central Yan'an Road also follows

222-704: Is a locality in Shanghai . It is a historic area of commerce and culture administratively within Xuhui District , which is named after the locality. The area is a well-known precinct for shopping and entertainment in Shanghai. It is served by the Xujiahui Station of the Shanghai Metro . Xujiahui means "Xu family junction" - more precisely, "property of Xu family at the junction of two rivers". The "Xu family" refers to

259-631: Is a road in Shanghai , a major east–west thoroughfare through the centre of the city. The modern Yan'an Road is in three sections, reflecting three connected streets which existed pre-1945: Avenue Edward VII , Avenue Foch , and the Great Western Road . The streets were joined together under a common name by the Republic of China government in 1945, then renamed in the early 1950s after the Chinese Communist Party took over Shanghai. The road

296-418: Is available within five minutes, but the type of product that Xujiahui is most famous for is electronics. It is one of the biggest places for people to get electronic equipment, from cameras to PSPs to Xboxes and modchips for those Xboxes and other game consoles as well. However, the biggest shopping mall for electronic equipment has closed in 2016. Currently, a brand new shopping center is under construction, it

333-534: Is located on Hongqiao Road, right beside the Grand Gateway. The new shopping center will officially open in 2016. The historic main campus of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University is located in Xujiahui, to the north of the Xujiahui junction. While due to space limitations the university has moved its undergraduate department to a new campus on the outskirts of Shanghai, the Xujiahui campus still houses

370-736: Is named after Yan'an , the Communist base during the Chinese Civil War . East Yan'an Road stretches from the southern end of the Bund in the east to Xizang Road (near People's Square and the customary centre of urban Shanghai) in the west. Yan'an Road East follows the course of an ancient canal, the West Yangjing Creek (the East Yangjing Creek was on the east side of the Huangpu River ;

407-740: Is now known as North Caoxi Road and is still referred to in English as the St. Ignatius Cathedral . The sign on the street calls it simply "Catholic Church." The cathedral was featured in the opening scenes of Steven Spielberg 's 1987 film Empire of the Sun . A number of other structures survive from its days as a center of Catholicism. One is the Collège Saint Ignace or Xuhui College on 68 Hongqiao Road, now renamed Xuhui High School (or Xuhui Middle School). Established by Jesuits in 1850, Xuhui (St. Ignatius) College

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444-410: Is still in Xujiahui. The former Shanghai Medical University , now Fudan University Shanghai Medical College , is located close to Xujiahui metro station. The Bibliotheca Zi-Ka-Wei (Xujiahui Library) is in the area. On the location of a former brick factory now stands the Xujiahui park, which was completed in 2002. The park also contains a manmade meandering brook (miniature model of the course of

481-645: The Bund Tunnel , a tunnel via which cars were funneled into a new underground roadway under the Bund. In 2017, a bus rapid transit line called Yan'an Road Medium Capacity Transit System (Route 71) opened along 17.5 km (10.9 mi) of Yan'an Road with 25 stops. The line is operated with trolley buses running on dedicated transit lanes along the surface-level roadway (i.e. under the elevated expressway). Xujiahui Xujiahui ( Chinese : 徐家汇 , Wu Chinese pronunciation: [ʑ̥i˨ ka̠˥ ɦɯe̞˨˩] , romanized as: Zikawei , Ziccawei , or Siccawei )

518-597: The Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War . A few years after the People's Liberation Army entered Shanghai, the Jesuits abandoned Xujiahui and relocated to nearby posts such as Macau or Manila . Many of those who remained were imprisoned by Communist authorities. These include Cardinal Ignatius Kung, who spent decades in prison, and Father Chang-min "Beda" Chang, who died in prison in November 1951. From 1949 onwards, most of

555-554: The Huangpu River ), basketball courts, and a children's playground. The park is traversed by a roughly 250 meter (820 feet)-long elevated pathway. The eastern part of the park features the historic Red House, which once housed the Pathé China record company. The Shanghai Conservatory of Music - also located in Xuhui district - often stages free performances during the Spring and Autumn months in

592-625: The Outer Ring Road ) and goes towards Hongqiao Road, which then become Yingbinyi Road, the entrance road to Hongqiao International Airport Terminal 1. West Yan'an Road Station at Kaixuan Road is a Shanghai Metro station. In 1989, the Yan'an Road East Tunnel was built, connecting Yan'an Road to Lujiazui in Pudong , on the east side of the Huangpu River. Between 1995 and 1997, an elevated expressway

629-774: The Catholic church retains a significant presence and there are still educational and scientific institutions in the area. The main Xujiahui shopping district is centered on the intersection of the streets Hongqiao Rd, Huashan Rd, Zhaojiabang Rd and North Caoxi Rd. Each of these streets terminates at the intersection, which is home to three supermarkets, six major shopping malls and nine large-scale office towers. (Clockwise from Hongqiao Road, Grand Gateway, Huashan Road, Pacific Sogo, Hengshan Road Tunnel, Huijin Department Store, Zhaojiabang Road, Metro-City , North Caoxi Road, Oriental Shopping Mall.) Everything from cosmetics to cars to cucumbers

666-498: The Japanese occupation renamed the road "Great Shanghai Road". In 1945, the Republic of China government, after recovering Shanghai at the end of World War II , renamed the road Zhongzheng Road East , after Chiang Kai-shek . The new Communist government of Shanghai renamed it Yan'an Road East in 1950 as part of the wholesale renaming of roads and parks named after Kuomintang figures. The eastern end of Yan'an Road East features

703-556: The Xuhui District Government and People's Procurate. The Tou-Se-We Orphanage ( Mandarin : Tushanwan) operated by the church, whose workshops supplied much of the religious art on Xujiahui's religious buildings, is half a mile to the south of Xujiahui junction; the sole surviving building of the orphanage is now the Tou-Se-We Museum. The educational institutions founded by the Catholic church led to Xujiahui's reputation as

740-632: The building. The new 44,517 square-meter building is in the Jing'an Sculpture Park . Opened to the public in 2015, the Shanghai Natural History Museum has moved to the new location. The museum has a collection of 240,000 samples, including over 62,000 pieces of animal specimens, 135,000 plant specimens, 700 specimens of the Stone Age , and 1,700 specimens of minerals. There are also rare species which cannot be found elsewhere outside China, such as

777-664: The cathedral, the French Jesuits also built orphanages, monasteries, schools, libraries and the Xujiahui observatory  [ zh ] (now the Shanghai Bureau of Meteorology). In time, it became a stronghold of Catholics in East Asia. One of the first structures to be built by the Jesuits was the St. Ignatius Cathedral in 1847, later reconstructed in 1906. The Cathedral is located on what

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814-527: The course of a small canal (Chang Bang). The canal also became the boundary between the International Settlement and the French Concession after the two concessions expanded west in 1899 and 1914 respectively. In 1920, the canal was filled in, and the concession authorities agreed to name it " Avenue Foch ", after French marshal Ferdinand Foch . In 1943 it was renamed "Luoyang Road", in 1945 it

851-661: The family of Xu Guangqi (Hsü Kuang-ch'i; 1562–1633), China's most notable Catholic convert. Most of what is now Xujiahui was once the ancestral home of the Xu family. Baptized by famed Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci , Xu Guangqi and his descendants donated large plots of land to the Catholic Church, including the site of the St. Ignatius Cathedral. During the 18th century it was known by Shanghai's western residents as "Ziccawei" or "Siccawei" in English, and "Zikawei" or "Zi-ka-wei" in French, from

888-405: The large houses and estates in Xujiahui were compulsarily acquired or seized by the government and converted into factories. Up until the late 1990s, the area was predominantly an industrial area. During the late 1990s, many of the state-owned factories were sold off and torn down. Xujiahui is now mainly a retail district of downtown Shanghai. Xujiahui today is mainly a commercial area, though

925-713: The northern boundary of the French Concession , which used the narrow space between the British Concession and the Chinese city of Shanghai proper to connect its holdings on the Bund with a larger space on the interior, eventually reaching to Xujiahui . The mix of nationalities in this area gave rise to the Chinese name "Yangjing Creek English" ( t 洋 涇 浜 英語 , s 洋 泾 浜 英语 , Yángjīngbāng Yīngyǔ ) for Chinese Pidgin English . In 1914–15, authorities in

962-621: The park is a traditional house relocated here as a result of urban redevelopment elsewhere in the district. The main intersection at Xujiahui is a transportation hub. It is served by dozens of bus routes, and by the Xujiahui metro station on Lines 1 , 9 and 11 of the Shanghai Metro . Xujiahui Subdistrict was established in May 1994 as a subdistrict of Xuhui District , Shanghai. The subdistrict covers 4.04 square kilometers (1.56 sq mi). There are 31,624 households which total 94,872 residents. There are roughly 110,000 permanent residents in

999-439: The park, as these are the times when weather in Shanghai is the best. The other notable park in Xujiahui is Guangqi Park, which features the tomb of Xu Guangqi , after whom the area and district are ultimately named. The tomb, recently restored according to its original set-up, is a curious combination of a large Christian cross as the grave marker, with a traditional Chinese "spirit way" lined with stone animals. Also located in

1036-661: The pronunciation of its name in Shanghainese . These names survive in the names of some institutions, such as the Bibliotheca Zi-Ka-Wei , and the area is still listed in a number of contemporary guidebooks and literature as "Zikawei" or some variant thereof. With land donated by Xu Guangqi's family and those acquired by other means, the Society of Jesus established a grand cathedral as well as an entire one square mile complex that covers most of present-day Xujiahui. In addition to

1073-545: The two concessions co-operated to fill in the Yangjing Creek. The former canal along with the two narrow roads which ran alongside it together became a wide avenue and a major thoroughfare. In 1916, the two authorities agreed to name the new road " Avenue Edward VII ", after Edward VII of the United Kingdom . In 1943, as part of a wholesale renaming of "Western" road names in Shanghai, the puppet government collaborating with

1110-550: The two were more closely connected when the Huangpu River was a small tributary of the larger Suzhou Creek ). Yangjing Creek ( t 洋 涇 浜 , s 洋 泾 浜 , Yángjīng Bāng ), also formerly romanized as Yang-ching-pang and Yang-king-pang , was the southern boundary of the British Concession established after the unequal Treaty of Nanjing ended the First Opium War in 1842. It soon came to form

1147-475: The university's School of International Education and several research institutes. The campus is notable for a number of historic buildings dating from the early 20th century, including its imperial-style gate and remnants of the imperial-style marble bridges, reflecting the university's former status as the Imperial Polytechnic. The former Collège Saint Ignace, founded in 1850 and now Xuhui High School ,

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1184-434: Was built along Yan'an Road, as the east–west axis of an urban elevated expressway network, beginning in the west at Hongqiao Airport and ending in the east with a left turn down a ramp onto the surface road of the Bund. In 2008, to improve the streetscape in this part of the city, the easternmost section of the expressway, from just east of the Shanghai Natural History Museum to the Bund , was demolished, replaced in part by

1221-470: Was built by the International Settlement's municipal council in two part. The eastern part in 1910 within the western extension of the International Settlement by filling in another canal, the Chaixing Bang. The western part was an " extra-settlement road ", built in 1922 beyond the western boundary of the concession (a de facto land grab to extend concession authority beyond the agreed boundaries). The road

1258-481: Was located in Xujiahui until 1922. While central Xujiahui was administratively part of the Chinese area of Shanghai, it was in reality controlled by the Catholic Church , which was closely associated with the French authorities of the French Concession . From 1914, Xujiahui sat just outside the borders of the French Concession, and remained under heavy French influence. Catholic Xujiahui came to an abrupt end with

1295-441: Was named the Great Western Road . In 1943 it was renamed "Chang'an Road", then in 1945 it became Zhongzheng Road West, and in 1950, Yan'an Road West. The east end of Yan'an Road West features a number of historic mansions, such as Kadoorie's House. To the west, Yan'an Road West once provided access to a number of large suburban estates and country retreats owned or used by members of the International Settlement's elites, including

1332-495: Was renamed "Zhongzheng Road Central", after Chiang Kai-shek, then renamed Yan'an Road Central in 1950. Yan'an Road Central is lined with commercial and residential buildings. Major landmarks include the Russian neo-classical Shanghai Exhibition Centre West Yan'an Road stretches from the western end of central Shanghai to Hongqiao Airport , in what was once the western suburbs of Shanghai, but now largely urbanised. Yan'an Road West

1369-511: Was the first educational institution in China to offer a fully western curriculum. Another is the Bibliotheca Zikawei (or Bibliotheque de Mission ), now a branch of Shanghai Library , adjacent to the cathedral. Several of the convent buildings scattered around Xujiahui are still visible in various states of preservation: one (structurally modified but still recognizable) serves as the office of

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