O Power

O Power & OCT Loft

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September 12th 2022
Holiday weekend and I was spending the last day of it exploring a different part of Shenzhen. We started at O Power, which was built in the 1980s and had been Huazhong power plant. This power plant had been used to light the whole OCT (Overseas Chinese Town) area. Since the power plant has been closed, it has been transformed into an art and culture centre. We spent about half an hour or so lookin ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more