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This guide to the Wulixiang Shikumen Museum in Shanghai's Xintiandi district traces what stood here before the shops and bars arrived: a warren of nineteen-twenties stone-gate lane houses, cleared out by a Hong Kong developer in the late 1990s. It follows the seven reconstructed rooms of one such home, from the landlord's quarters to the cramped tingzijian room tucked under the stairs, once rented cheap to struggling writers. Listen for how a whole school of Shanghai literature grew out of a room barely big enough for a bed.