Liang Shiqiu was a famous essayist, scholar, literary critic and translator in China. He was the first authority on Shakespeare studies in China and had continuous written debates with left-wing writers such as Lu Xun. Throughout his life, he left more than 20 million characters of literary creations for the Chinese literary world, and his collections of essays set the highest record for the publication of modern Chinese prose works. His representative works include "Sketch of the Elegant House", "A History of English Literature" and "The Complete Works of Shakespeare".

In the early 1930s, when Liang Shiqiu served as the head of the Foreign Languages Department and the curator of the library at Qingdao University, he lived here. During that period, he created and published "A Collection of Literary Criticisms" and began to translate "The Complete Works of Shakespeare". There are still trees planted by Liang Shiqiu in the courtyard back then. At the entrance of the alley where the former residence is located, there is a nameplate erected by the Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Cultural Heritage. Liang Shiqiu believed that the four years he spent in Qingdao were the happiest period for his family in his life. He also thought that among all the places from the northern border to the southern Guangdong in China, Qingdao was the best.