Shortly after the May 4th Movement, Li Dazhao and others set up the first * * * production team in the North in the Red Chamber, which became the center of revolutionary activities in the North. There are two rooms facing east in the southeast corner of the first floor, which was the place where Li Dazhao worked. Mr. Lu Xun has been employed as a teacher in Peking University since 1920. He has been teaching in the Red Chamber for six years, teaching new culture and new ideas, and cultivating many revolutionary youths. Deng Zhongxia and other famous producers are also engaged in revolutionary activities here.
There are two rooms facing west in the southeast corner of the first floor of the Red Building where Comrade Li Dazhao worked. The Red Building of Peking University is also the original site of Beijing Institute of Political Science and Law, which was established in 1952.
During the Japanese occupation of Peiping, there were military, constitutional and secret service institutions such as the China Military Gendarmerie Command, the Japanese Gendarmerie Command, the Beijing Gendarmerie Command and the Japanese Gendarmerie. 1939, Li Kuchan, a master of Chinese painting, was detained in the Red House in Peking University, the headquarters of the Japanese Gendarmerie.