“以一种大饭店开放的、单纯的、见多识广的方式,勾连与证明一个个沧海桑田的旧时代,这是任何一座单纯的纪念碑都无法比肩的丰富与真切。这是和平饭店得以存在的理由。没有一座纪念碑,能比和平饭店更胜任来做上海的纪念碑。不论那过往是如何在堤岸上被移花接木,它总面江而立,呈一个巨大的A字,好像一条载着无限往事颠簸前行的大船。”这是上海作家陈丹燕在她的《成为和平饭店》前言里写下的话。的确,和平饭店是一个足以满足人们对整个二十世纪窥视的好奇目光的地方。热衷了解外交秘密的 “Open to a large hotel, simple, well-informed way, concluding and proving one after another of the old times, this is a simple monuments are incomparably rich and real .This is the Peace Hotel to There is no reason why a monument can be more capable than the Peace Hotel to be a memorial to Shanghai, no matter how the past was embossed on the embankment, it always stands across the river, showing a huge A word, like a carrying an infinite past Buoyant ship. ”“ This is what Shanghai writer Chen Danyan wrote in her preface to ”Peace Hotel." Indeed, Peace Hotel is a place that is enough to satisfy the curious gaze of people looking through the twentieth century. Keen to understand diplomatic secrets