Zhuangjia Street // 庄家街

Zhuangjia Jie 庄家街 (Zhuang Family Street) used to extend from a bridge over Zhaojia Creek, one of the key waterways in the walled city. Zhuang Family Bridge (Zhuangjiaqiao 庄家桥) was named after the Zhuang clan, which has mostly disappeared from Shanghai records. The majority of the Zhuangs lived in the far outskirts of the city, in Fengxian county, and their genealogical records were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.


Shanghai Old Town: The Walled City (2018), pp. 390–397.
Zhuangjia Street, looking south from the intersection with Xicangqiao Street, in 2011.
Northern part of Zhuangjia Street, near Lane 45, in 2011.

No. 7 Lane 79 Zhuangjia Street // 近圣坊庄家街79弄7号

The lane compound at Lanes 79 and 87, called Holy Lane (Jinshengfang 近圣坊), dates back to 1910. A particularly large courtyard house, at No. 7, was once a branch of the Qingsheng Kerchief Factory 庆升毛帕厂, and later home to a dozen families.

Interior courtyard of No. 7 Lane 79 Zhuangjia Street in 2011.
July 2021.
July 2021.
Corridor in No. 7 in July 2021.
The same corridor in June 2023; the house is now vacated.

Still from the propaganda film Peach and Plum Blossoms in the Spring 春催桃李 (1961), showing the view west along Xicangqiao Street 西仓桥街 at the intersection with Zhuangjia Lane 庄家弄. Map.

Map of Zhuangjia Street 庄家街. Shanghai Old Town: The Walled City, p. 393.

Map of Zhuangjia Street 庄家街 (1948).