Shrimps not whales – Building a City of Small Parts as an Alternative Vision for Post-Industrial Society

I was expecting the necessity of a protracted explanation on my part as to where exactly I wanted to go, but the taxi driver immediately knew, despite the fact that 798 Art District is way up in the northeast of Beijing, adjacent to a nondescript business centre in what was a German military camp enclosure. It is no longer enclosed. It no longer needs to be. The government has long ago seen the sense in accessibility and careful encouragement where art is concerned, as strategies to avoid secrecy and dissent by potentially counter-revolutionary artists and intellectuals.