多倫路修建于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筑路的產(chǎn)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涌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，象征性地花了些錢，買下了這片土地。
竇樂安看中這里中、美、日三不管的寬松環(huán)境、便宜的地價和淞滬鐵路近在咫尺的交通，填河造路，干起了招商引資的營生。于是，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(jīng)工作與居住的地方。其中就包括了魯迅、茅盾、瞿秋白、丁玲等，臺灣作家白先勇也在這里的白公館里度過童年。

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(qū)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(nèi)山完造到景云里、中華藝術大學、上海藝術劇社，名人故居、海上舊里，積淀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(xiàn)代文學重鎮(zhèn)”，因為30年代中國一群左聯(lián)作家，諸如魯迅、茅盾、郭沫若、葉圣陶等文學巨匠以及丁玲、柔石等左聯(lián)作家等人，曾在此頻繁地進行文學交流。在多倫路201弄2號還留有左聯(lián)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(xiàn)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筑的“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里曾經(jīng)激蕩文壇的震耳驚雷；多倫路上走一走，你仿佛還能感受到這里曾經(jīng)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里厚積薄發(fā)的中國近現(xiàn)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。

如 今的多倫路面清目秀，凸顯了沿街建筑的特色風貌。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(nèi)外賓客懷舊休閑、旅游觀光、文化消費的好去處�！懊�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后，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“上海十大休閑街”的文化街上，擁有全國第一家現(xiàn)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(xiàn)了二、三十年代上海的人文風情，并以獨特的文博景觀和典雅的文化品位成為上海的旅游熱點之一。

Duolun Road (formerly named Doulean Road transliteration) is a little street inShanghai, 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.

（多倫路（原名竇樂安路）是上海的一條小街，北靠四川北路商圈，南靠魯迅公園、
虹口足球場，背靠內(nèi)環(huán)高架、明珠線。它的長度只有大約半英里。這條街又窄又
短，又深又靜，兩旁是一排排風格各異的小房子。通過地圖很難找到它，它是現(xiàn)
代文學史上的一個主要場景。
在過去的一個世紀里，上海經(jīng)歷了許多滄桑。這里曾經(jīng)是一個漁村，后來變成了外國冒險家出沒的大都市，現(xiàn)在它已成為東方最偉大的城市之一。這一歷史進程集中表現(xiàn)在多倫路及其周邊地區(qū)的一個方面，其
實可以概括為：“上海，百年之城，盡在多倫小街”。在這一歷史時期，魯迅、茅盾、郭沫若、葉申濤等文學大家，以及丁林、柔石等“左翼異邦作家”，確立了其“現(xiàn)代文學名區(qū)”的歷史地位。與此同時，它被著名的公費咖啡館（文物館）和洪德堂改造成“開放的上海時尚建筑博物館”，并被孔祥熙、白崇熙、唐恩波等不同風格的民居改造成“開放的上海時尚建筑博物館”。最重要的是，一個強大的文化在這一領域已經(jīng)形成由著名文人如耀秋白、陳Wangdao趙世炎和中山教授Kanzo和縉云巷等主要文化景點，中國藝術大學，藝術戲劇劇團和許多其他著名人士的住宅以老上海的方式和許多其他車道。所有這些都縈繞在我們的腦海中，我們無法將白己撕裂。過去的幾十年形成了個輝煌的景象，并使它重新出現(xiàn)。在中共上海市委副書記龔學平的關心和支持下，虹口區(qū)人民政府決定將多倫路改造成“文化名人街”。按照上海整體發(fā)展的規(guī)劃和“舊貌換新貌”的原則，我們將努力把上海百年歷史濃縮在未來的新街中，再現(xiàn)20,30年代上海的文化風尚和人文風貌。我們計劃建造二十多個各種各樣的博物館、藝術大廳和展覽中心，以及各種各樣的文化休閑場所。因此，多倫路將成為個旅游熱點，其特點是獨特的文化景觀和博物館，以其高質量的文化。沿街排列著博物館、展覽中心、古玩之家，書田之家、書店，文學俱樂部，茶館、酒吧等，為中外賓客營造了一個美妙的場所。他們可以去那里旅游觀光，追憶過去，消遣娛樂，進行文化消費。

走在多倫路上，仿佛能感受到曾經(jīng)在這里跳動的“民族靈魂”的脈搏。走在多倫路上，仿佛呼吸到了中國現(xiàn)代文化的清新氣息。走在多倫路上，你一定能領略到上海近百年來的風土人情。走在多倫路上，你一定能看到你從未見過的東西，聽到你從未聽說過的東西，想到你從未想過的東西，得到你從未擁有過的東西。一個集文化、音樂、休閑為一體的集貿(mào)市場，是明天發(fā)達的多倫路廣闊未來的縮影。根據(jù)整體開發(fā)規(guī)劃，已開發(fā)的多倫路將以文化景觀街道為主，形成一系列的文化貿(mào)易網(wǎng)絡節(jié)點。文化景觀的形成主要是未來文化街沿線建筑風貌的凸現(xiàn)和街內(nèi)文化氛圍的營造。此外，沿街的人行道、樹木，路燈都設計得很美，像珍珠樣，有助于形成文化街區(qū)的整體面貌。此基礎上，恢復與重建舊著名的文化景點如“Gongfei咖啡館”和“中山教授書店”，和文化的建設的新地點，等空閑時間“世紀鐘樓”，Street-center花園”和“廣場地位的著名的人”，特別introducing-and-establishing大約兩打地方文化活動如“民間收藏大廳”，“（各種）博物館（s)”和“（各種）藝術大廳（s),將完全形成個以文化和博物館為特征的街道。
同時，作為上海未來最大的休閑商業(yè)街，四川北路商業(yè)街的主要支路之一，未來的多倫路將有一個兼顧文化品味和貿(mào)易效益的文化銷售空間。我們應該強調，這條街將具有上世紀30年代的特征。中國各類文化產(chǎn)品的精華將被邀請到落名畫家田廊、藝術陶瓷市場，書流四館，古玩市場，石庫門客棧等交易場所參加比賽。
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