歷史淵源
多倫路修建於1912年,雖在理論上隸屬華界,但卻是當時上海公共租界工部局越界築路的產物。多倫路全長550米,呈L字型,東、北兩端都與四川北路(1945年以前稱北四川路)交匯。這條小街曲折幽靜,街邊的小樓風格各異。夾街小樓,櫛比鱗次,風格各異。
20世紀初的多倫路,還是上海寶山縣一條荒蕪冷僻的小河浜。
在隨西方列強炮火而湧入中國的淘金者隊伍中,有一個叫竇樂安的英國傳教士(他曾受到清朝光緒帝接見),在當時虹口公共租界地塊上,象徵性地花了些錢,買下了這片土地。
竇樂安看中這裡中、美、日三不管的寬鬆環境、便宜的地價和淞滬鐵路近在咫尺的交通,填河造路,乾起了招商引資的營生。於是,新的路名便叫竇樂安路。
多倫路與上海的豫園老街、靜安寺、南京路相比,沒有他們的奢華輝煌,顯得有點不起眼。然而這條外觀看似平凡的觀光景點,它卻是中國近代史上的臥虎藏龍之地,二十世紀初文化界重地,也是許多彪炳史冊的文壇名流曾經工作與居住的地方。其中就包括了魯迅、茅盾、瞿秋白、丁玲等,台灣作家白先勇也在這裡的白公館裡度過童年。
人文沉澱
一個多世紀來,上海走過了從開埠時期的沙船漁村到三十年代的十里洋場直至形成今日東方大都市的滄桑歷程。多倫路及其周邊地區從一個側面集中地展示了這個歷程印跡和文化縮影,從瞿秋白、陳望道、趙世炎、王造時、內山完造到景雲里、中華藝術大學、上海藝術劇社,名人故居、海上舊里,積澱成今天多倫路上濃厚的文化氣息,使人流連忘返。真可謂“一條多倫路,百年上海灘”。
多倫路號稱“現代文學重鎮”,因為30年代中國一群左聯作家,諸如魯迅、茅盾、郭沫若、葉聖陶等文學巨匠以及丁玲、柔石等左聯作家等人,曾在此頻繁地進行文學交流。在現在的多倫路201弄2號還留有左聯會址與紀念館。這些左翼文學健將們的故居也多在這條小路上。而名聞遐邇的公啡咖啡館(現已改為時裝商廈)、孔祥熙公館、白崇禧公館、湯恩伯公館等遺址,更使得多倫路彷佛成為海派建築的“露天博物館”。
總之,多倫路是值得慢慢逛的地方。多倫路上走一走,你似乎還能聆聽到這裡曾經激盪文壇的震耳驚雷;多倫路上走一走,你仿佛還能感受到這裡曾經強勁跳動的“民族魂”脈搏;多倫路上走一走,你依稀還能呼吸到這裡厚積薄發的中國近現代文化的沁人氣息;多倫路上走一走,你一定還能領略到百年上海灘演繹的民俗風情。多倫路上走一走,你一定能見前所之未見,聞前所之未聞,思前所之未思,獲前所之未獲。
它以舊容新貌貫串過去與未來,訴說著上海灘種種動人的傳說。
典雅文博
如 今的多倫路面清目秀,凸顯了沿街建築的特色風貌。兩側的博物館、展覽館、古玩字畫、書屋文苑、茶室 吧廊則成為國內外賓客懷舊休閒、旅遊觀光、文化消費的好去處。“名人雕塑廣場”、“名人足跡路”、“民間收藏館”、“藝術館”、“博物館”。在引進上海古玩商店後,又吸引了“藏書票收藏館”、“蘇韻閣”、“筷子博物館”(多倫路191號)、“金泉古幣博物館”(四川北路203弄35號原湯公館)、“南京鐘收藏館”(多倫路193號)、“文風奇石藏館”(多倫路189號)等等一批極具個性的民間收藏館,形成了“文博街市”的主體特色。多倫路上還有一些其他小型私人收藏博物館包括集報館、古陶瓷收藏館等。這條已被評為“上海十大休閒街”的文化街上,擁有全國第一家現代美術館,它吸引了世界各地的畫家與畫廊。
“多倫路文化名人街”再現了二、三十年代上海的人文風情,並以獨特的文博景觀和典雅的文化品位成為上海的旅遊熱點之一。
PROVISO
Duolun Road (formerly named Doulean Road transliteration) is a little street in Shanghai, north of the Sichuanbei Road Trade Area, and south of Lu Xun Park and Hongkou Football Field, with its back to the Inner Ring Viaduct and Jewel Light Track. The length of it is only about half a mile. The street is both narrow and short, and is also winding and deep and quiet, edged by little buildings of various styles, row upon row. Through in the maps it can hardly be found, it's a major scene in the history of literature of modern times.
In the past century, Shanghai has gone through a course of many vicissitudes. Once a fishing village and then a metropolis infested with foreign adventures, now it has become one of the great cities in the east. This course of history is showed concentratively in one aspect in Duo Lun Road and its surrounding areas, which can be, in fact, summarized as they say:" Shanghai, a city of hundred years, can be seen in Duo Lun, a little street." During this historical period, its historical position as "the famous and major district of modern literature" was established by great literature masters such as Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Guo Moruo, Ye Shentao, and by authors of "The Left-wing Authors Alien" such as Ding Lin and Rou Shi. Meanwhile it was made into "an open museum of Shanghai-fasion Buildings" bye the famous Gongfei cafe(relics) and Honde Hall, and by the residences of various styles such as Kong(xiangxi) Residence, Bai(Chongxi) Residence and Tang(Enbo) Residence. Above all, a strong flavour of culture has been formed in this area by famous men of letters such as Qu Qiubai, Chen Wangdao, Zhao Shiyan and Uchiyama Kanzo, and by the major cultural spots such as Jinyun Lane, Arts University of China, Arts Drama Troupe and many other residences of famous persons and many other lanes in old Shanghai fashion. All these linger in our minds and we can't tear ourselves away.
Those past decades of years formed a brilliant scene and to get it reappeared. Cared and supported by Gong Xueping, the vice-secretary of Shanghai Committee of the Communist Party of China, the People's Government of Hongkou District decides to reconstruct Duolun Road into a "street of famous cultural persons". According to the plan of developing it as a whole and to the rule "Rebuild it as the former", we will manage to concentrate the hundred years history of Shanghai in the new street in future to reappear the fashion of culture and humanity of Shanghai in 1920s and 1930s. We plan to build about two dozens of various museums, arts halls and exhibition centers and all kinds of Cultural-relaxation places. Thus Duolun Road will become a hot spot of tourist trade that charactered by its special scenes of letters and museums and by its high quality of culture. Ranged along the sides of the street, the museums, the exhibition centers, the houses of antique and curio and calligraphy and painting, the bookshops, the literary clubs, the teahouse and the wine bars will frame an wonderful place for the guests home and abroad. They can go there for touring and sightseeing, for recalling the past times and beguiling their leisure times, and for cultural consuming.
Walking on Duolun Road, you seem to hear the thunders that once made great sounds in the literary world. Walking on Duolun Road, you seem to feel the pulse of the "National Soul" that once beat mightily here. Walking on Duolun Road, you seem to breathe the refreshing breath of the modern culture of China. Walking on Duolun Road, you can surely appreciate the custom and fashion that have performed and changed in Shanghai for about one century. Waling on Duolun Road, you can surely see what you haven't seen before, and be told of what you never knew, and think of what are strange to your mind, and gain what you never owned. A market-street of culture and musems and a social district for leisure time, that is a sketch of the wide future scene of the developed Duolun Road tomorrow.
According to the plan of developing it as a whole, the developed Duolun Road will be mainly a street of cultural scene that will help to form a series of net-knots of cultural trade. The cultural scene will be mainly the result of convex-showing the charactered appearance of the building along the cultural street in future, and of producing the cultural atmosphere in the street. Added to these, the pavement, the trees, the street lamps, all designed beautiflly and pearl-like along the street, will help to establish the general appearance of the street of culture. One this basis, the resuming-and rebuilding of the famous old cultural spots such as "Gongfei Cafe" and "Uchiyama Bookshop", and the constructing of the new spots of culture and for leisure time such as "Century Clock Tower", Street-center Garden" and "Square of Status of Famous Persons", and especially the introducing-and-establishing of about two dozens places for cultural activities such as "Folk Collection Hall", "(various) Museum(s)" and "(various) Arts Hall(s)", will together form completely a morket-street charactered of culture and museums.
Meanwhile, as the largest leisure-time market-street in the future in shanghai, and as one of the main branches of Sichuanbei Road the trade street, Duolun Road in the future will begiven a cultural sales scope that give emphatic consideration both to cultural taste and to trade benefit. And we should put stress on that the street will be given characteristics of the 1930s'. The cream of various cultural products of China will be invited from all sides to join in competitions in the trading places such as famous painters' gallery, artistic ceramics market, house of the four tresures of the study, antique market, Shikumen-Inn and so on.