Inside an industrial-style studio

Day #94: 798 District

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July 18th 2013
The 798 District is a small area of suburban Beijing with a high concentration of art galleries (in fact, practically every shopfront within a square mile or so is a gallery or trendy cafe serving wraps and ciabattas). A taxi journey is required to get there as it isn't on a Subway line and this seems to put a lot of tourists off - it was much quieter than other parts of Beijing, and because y ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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