SHANGHAI DAILY, 11 June 2008
articel by: Michelle Qiao and Zhang Qian
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Celebrating a legacy built on genious.
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The brilliant trajectory of a hungarian architect in the process of modernization of the greatest city of the East.
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Wu Tongwen's Residence
A four-storey green building at the cross section of Beijing Xilu Road and Tongren Road was surrounded by the wall built with green bricks and in a shape of arch, looking like a passenger liner, known as "green house" by people of old Shanghai.
Liu Jisheng's Former Residence
Located at 675-681 Julu Road, this is the former home of Liu Jisheng, brother of China's industrialist Liu Hongsheng. The Liu brothers were the "coal magnate," one of the four biggest industrial and commercial magnates before 1949 (the other three were the Rong Brothers, the Jians' Nanyang Tobaccos, and the Guos' Yong'an Group). In 1921, Liu Jisheng purchased the land at 681 Julaida Road (presentday Julu Road) in the French concession and began to build his residence. In 1924, Liu Jisheng also bought the land to the east of his former residence at today's 675 Jululu and built a Western-style house, designed by the Hungarian architect L.E.Hudec