Song Jiaoren’s Residence

Located in the northwest corner of Beijing Zoo in Xicheng District, this house is called Changguan Lou. The architecture is typically European and it is the only perfectly preserved Western-style holiday palace of Empress Dowager Cixi.

Song Jiaoren was from Taoyuan County in Hunan Province. He set up the Hua Xing Hui (China Rehabilitation Association) and late became the backbone of the Tong Meng Hui (Chinese Revolutionary League).
After the Republic of China was founded, he enacted the Temporary Regulations of the Republic of China, which constituted China’s first national fundamental law, equivalent to a constitution.
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