Zhang Xueliang's Residence was built in 1932. There are three three-story buildings which were constructed by wood and bricks in western styles in both east and west sides. The east building is the office building. The middle building is living room and meeting room. And the west one is Zhang Xueliang's residence.

Zhang Xue-liang is known as the Young Marshal was an important figure in modern Chinese history. Zhang Xueliang who is the son of Zhang zuolin, a head of Fengxi(a area of Liaoning Province) warlord, became effective ruler of Manchuria after the assassination of his father by the Japanese. The Japanese were concerned that it would declare support for Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of Kuomintang Government, and believed that Zhang Xueliang who was an opium addict would be much more subject to Japanese influence. Unexpectedly, the younger Zhang proved to be more independent than anyone had expected. He overcame his opium addiction and declared to support Government to object Japanese invasion. However, Chiang Kai-shek insisted such policy at that time: to resolve the trouble abroad should be after to stabilize home.

In the aftermath of the Long March of 1934, when the Communists, now located in Yenan province in the northwest, urged all Chinese factions to unite to resist Japanese aggression.

The Communist call for a united front appealed to many Chinese, including General Zhang Xueliang and his army, who longed to return to their homes in Manchuria, now occupied by the Japanese. Chiang ordered Zhang and General Yang Hucheng and their armies to attack the Yenan redoubt of Mao Zedong (1893-1976), but neither the generals nor their troops showed much cooperation.

On 3 December 1936, Chiang flew to Zhang's and Yang's headquarters in Xi'an to put pressure on them to launch a military offensive. Nine days later, Zhang arrested Chang and presented eight demands that centered on a united front against Japan and a halt to the anti-Communist campaign. The crisis worsened when Nationalist generals in Nanjing threatened to attack the two generals in Xi'an and then perhaps launch an all-out offensive against the Communists. It appeared too many that China might break down into chaos.

At this point, the Communist leader Zhou Enlai (1898-1976) offered to negotiate, for the Communists had decided that the threat of civil breakdown was worse than Chiang's continuing in power. Zhang agreed to restore Chiang to power and Chiang nominally agreed to pursue a united front. The peaceful settlement of "Xi'an Incident" put an end to the civil war which had lasted for years, and accelerated the formation and development of the National United Front for the Resistance against Japan. Moreover, it is a new page of the cooperation between the Communists and Nationalists of the cooperation between the Communists and the Nationalists and marked a great turning point in modern Chinese history.

Zhang spent half a century in house arrest for his role in the Xian incident, and followed Chiang to Taiwan where he remained non-political and spent his time studying Ming dynasty poetry. He died of pneumonia in Hawaii on October 15,2001, at the age of 101.