Peace Hotel
Monday, January 4th, 2010Speaking of Peace Hotel, a lot of people may think that the Ministry of 1:00 were impatient of old movies – in 1921 in Shanghai, Wang arpin breath legend murder to kill more than 200 gang troops, and then painted for the community, insert a knife stone, open of a “Peace Hotel.” Since then, rivers and lakes there are rules, regardless of any person, got into any trouble as long as the race to be within the Peace Hotel, no not this gang revenge killing. After all, the film may be the film, it only deepened people’s impression of the Peace Hotel.
In fact, the Peace Hotel on March 8, 1906 was born. In 1903, Palace Hotel (now the Peace Hotel South Building) began the construction of China’s first elevator equipment, to be completed in 1905, with Shanghai’s first sanitary facilities, the first two lifts and the first roof garden. Shanghai Peace Hotel South Building is a modern building in the history of the first Modernist buildings; was founded in 1926, North Building Peace Hotel (Chinachem Hotel) cost of more than 2.48 million two silver, known as the Far East, first floor, received Chaplin , George Bernard Shaw, General Wedemeyer, General Marshall, Stuart and so on, playwright Noel Coward’s most famous drama “private life” is written in the CathayHotel. Sun Yat-sen in 1911 became the President before travel to Nanjing, in the Palace Hotel made a “revolution is not successful and comrades still efforts,” the famous slogan. Chiang Kai-shek’s engagement ceremony is also a banquet hall in the Palace Hotel held.
Peace Hotel stands then the suite of Wang-Ku meeting, where the floor stepped up and also some crunching. Year specifically for the Wang-Ku meeting stripe sofa purchased are still intact, while the corridors and the ancient orange decorative lights silhouetted against each other, so that the centuries-old shop is full of vicissitudes of history and heavy feeling. Here a few reservations Linjiang features suites, or to show India’s style of Neo-Neon, or reflect the Spanish-style of simplicity, but also can not be copied peace “specialty.”
Peace Hotel has received the U.S. President Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and countless dignitaries, but the Wang-Ku meeting held in this area is probably the most historical significance.
Peace Hotel, the Peace Hall. At 17:35 on October 14, 1998, ARATS chairman Wang Daohan and SEF chairman Koo Chen-fu in this meeting: “Welcome to Shanghai!” Approached step by Koo Chen-fu, Wang’s hand holding a long time . At this point, the camera flash into a ring, stunning eyes and ears. This is the second five years ago, two in Singapore to shake hands again after the talks.