七九八Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng
朝阳区, 北五环外, 798 的东北边Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond
This area, once way behind 798 in commercialism, was effectively founded by Ài Wèiwèi (艾未未), the first big name to move here, and…
Part of A Better Guide to Běijīng’s coverage of Běijīng Suburbs and Beyond
There have long been artist colonies in Běijīng, notably one on the grounds of the ‘Old’ Summer Palace, mainly known only to the artists themselves, living hand-to-mouth well before Chinese art began…
Ài Wèiwèi has had several run-ins with the authorities. His heroic effort to list by name, despite an official blackout, all the children killed by collapses of shoddy ‘tofu dregs’ school buildings in the 2008 Sìchuān earthquake and his public…
