Archive for January, 2012

Invierno in Beijing II- siete-nueve-ocho

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I’m back in rainy/ sunny/ ponded Singapore my friends! Just in time for Christmas as well :)

Now that I’ve got my internet access fully back, here’s the next instalment of my Beijing trip!

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If you’re ever in Beijing, you really need to check out this really cool and niche Arts district, 798.

It’s something like a 田子方in Shanghai but much, much bigger, and less commercialised- sitting comfortably at the crossroads of the modern and the new.

From what I researched on the place (after visiting it, no less :p), it was a former Soviet-owned, German industrial area that was disused and later taken over by the PRC government that was later gazetted as an arts district.

A lot of top artists in China had their roots here, living and working from this area once.

Beijing 2011 Photos5

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