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The Astor House Hotel (), also known as the Pujiang Hotel (), is an historic landmark hotel on the northern Bund in Shanghai, China. It is the successor to the earlier Richards' Hotel and Restaurant. The story of the Hotel provides a revealing insight into the history of China itself. According to Rob Gifford, "The Astor House Hotel has witnessed the whole sweep of China's emergence into the modern world, from English opium running in the 1840s through the tea dances of polite society in the 1920s and to the excesses of Maoist China in the 1960s." 〔Rob Gifford, ''China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power'' (Random House, 2007):4.〕 ==Shanghai Government (1954-1988)== On 19April 1954 the Astor House Hotel, which was owned by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd., was confiscated and control of the hotel passed to the Land and House Bureau of the Shanghai people's government.〔"Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd.," ''Far Eastern Economic Review'' 18 (1955):344.〕 On 25 June 1958 the hotel was incorporated into the Shanghai Institution Business Administrative bureau. Prior to the Hotel's re-opening as the Pujiang Hotel in 1959, "the building had been used by a tea and textile trading company as offices and dormitories, as well as by the Chinese Navy."〔Hibbard, ''Bund'', 222.〕 On 27May 1959, the name of the Hotel was changed from the Astor House Hotel to the Pujiang Hotel (浦江饭店),〔Harpruder; http://www.rickshaw.org/way_we_remember_it.htm〕 and the hotel was permitted to receive both foreigners and overseas Chinese guests. During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), the Hotel declined substantially, with the dining room on the top floor being changed beyond all recognition. During this period, the Hotel became the first hotel in China to offer hostel beds.〔Megan Shank, "The Astor House Hotel", Megan Shank dot com (for the forthcoming “To Shanghai with Love” travel guide); http://www.meganshank.com/blog/the-astor-house-hotel/ See also: Crystyl Mo, ed., ''To Shanghai With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur'' (ThingsAsian Press); http://www.thingsasianpress.com/tawl.htm〕 In the 1980s and 1990s, the Hotel "became the city's premiere destination for independent travellers seeking dormitory accommodation."〔Hibbard,'' Bund'', 222.〕 One 1983 guide described the Hotel as "slightly run-down",〔Jill Hunt et al., ''Shanghai'', rev.ed. (China Guide Series, 1983):24.〕 while a 1986 guide warned: "Despite its exceptional location near the Bund, ... the Pujiang is recommended only to travelers well prepared for 'roughing it'".〔Fredric M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sobin, and Arne J. De Keijzer, eds., ''The China Guidebook'', 7th ed. (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1986):551.〕 Pamela Yatsko, who stayed at the Pujiang Hotel in 1986, described it as "a dilapidated western architectural relic catering to penny-pinching backpackers like myself, melted seamlessly into this somber skyline, making it barely distinguishable from a distance....As for the Astor House Hotel's spacious rooms, the renamed hotel rented me a cot in one that had been converted into a dorm room fitting probably 30 beds....The clerk charged me the equivalent of US$8 a night for the cot."〔Pamela Yatsko, ''New Shanghai: The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary City'' (Wiley, 2006):2.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of the Astor House Hotel (Shanghai) since 1958」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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