(第8集)和平飯店

The Cathay Hotel, the predecessor of the Peace Hotel, once hosted numerous domestic and international celebrities and important groups. The League of Nations investigation team, which came to investigate the September 18 Incident, stayed at the Cathay Hotel in Shanghai in September 1932 after concluding their investigation in Northeast China. Marconi, the 1909 Nobel laureate in Physics and the "father of radio," stayed at the Cathay Hotel in December 1933. In December 1945, US Special Envoy George Cartwright Marshall visited China and stayed in a luxurious suite at the Cathay Hotel after arriving in Shanghai on the 20th. In addition, Sun Yat-sen, Soong Ching-ling, Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward, and others dined or stayed here. It was here that Noel Coward completed the writing of his play *Private Lives*. During its time at the Peace Hotel, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, former French Prime Minister François Mitterrand, former US Presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, former IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, and Brazilian President Lula da Silva all visited, dined, or stayed there. Furthermore, the second "Wang-Koo Talks" between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait were held here in October 1998. In 2001, the APEC meeting was held in Shanghai, and leaders from various countries dined here.