http://chinfamous.com/blog Notes and Onanistic Scraps from the Smog-strangled Mind of an American Journalist in China Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:38:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ http://chinfamous.com/blog/2010/02/27/pingyao-not-as-lame-as-expected/ http://chinfamous.com/blog/2010/02/27/pingyao-not-as-lame-as-expected/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:25:52 +0000 josh http://chinfamous.com/blog/?p=282 …but, then again, it wasn’t high season.

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]]> http://chinfamous.com/blog/2010/02/27/pingyao-not-as-lame-as-expected/feed/ 1 http://chinfamous.com/blog/2008/11/21/photos-caochangdi%e8%8d%89%e5%9c%ba%e5%9c%b0-beijing-art-village-venture/ http://chinfamous.com/blog/2008/11/21/photos-caochangdi%e8%8d%89%e5%9c%ba%e5%9c%b0-beijing-art-village-venture/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:49:45 +0000 josh http://chinfamous.com/blog/?p=150 Just returned from a very mixed attempt at beach vacationing (Thailand, about which more later) and have now finally gotten around to posting some long overdue photos. This set is from a trip my girlfriend and I took a couple months ago to Caochangdi, the village outside Beijing commandeered by Chinese uber-artist Ai Weiwei as a supposed alternativre to the Soho-ification of the 798 Art Zone, née Factory 798. The village’s name (草场地, literally “Grass Field”) suggests a rusticity and Woodstocky spontaneity I’m not sure it has, but…well, see for yourself.

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