I.M.Pei is one of the most famous master of modern architecture in the world. But few people know that actually Pei has the imposing family background. His father Zuyi Pei, who is the president of Back of China, which was one of the earliest and substantial financial group in Chinese modern economic history. Before Pei immigrated to the United States, their family lived in the private luxury mansion located in the richest neighborhood in Nanyang road, jingan, Shanghai.
Pei family mansion is the mixture of Chinese classical and western modern. It is designed by Swiss architecture group, and made by the best materials. Pei mansion also has a huge Suzhou classical garden. One of the earliest elevator in Shanghai was installed in the Pei mansion at the same time, which is OTIS. In general, Pei mansion is one of the best protected classical Shanghai building in 1930s, when is a complicated era, filled with people from all over the world , in Shanghai.
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