Hongkou
虹口
Shanghai's cultural north: the literary quarter of Lu Xun and the left-wing circle — Duolun Road's 'first street of Shanghai-style culture', the Shanyin Road conservation lane with the writer's former home, and Lu Xun Park with his grave — plus the North Bund riverside greenway along the Huangpu. Quieter and more lived-in than the plane-tree quarter, flat and metro-served.
The Hongkou district (虹口区) is Shanghai's cultural north — the district of the left-wing literary movement and the city's most lived-in heritage streets. Its anchors are the literary quarter and the river: Duolun Road, reported the 'first street of Shanghai-style culture', with its former residences, galleries and the Xishi Bell Tower; the Shanyin Road conservation lane, where Lu Xun's former home at Dalu Xincun and the Neishan Bookstore site preserve the writer's Shanghai years; Lu Xun Park with the writer's grave, the plum garden and the stele corridor; the lovers' wall of Tian'ai Road; and the North Bund riverside greenway running along the Huangpu's Hongkou shore. The district's walks are flat, free and metro-served — Lines 3/8 at 虹口足球场站 for the literary quarter, Line 10 for the North Bund — and quieter than the French Concession's famous streets by a clear margin: the literary pilgrimage first, the riverfront second.
