Districts of Beijing - Administrative Divisions of Beijing, 798 Art Zone, Xidan, Chaoyang District, Beijing, Haidian District, Imperial City (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Administrative divisions of Beijing, 798 Art Zone, Xidan, Chaoyang District, Beijing, Haidian District, Imperial City, Beijing, Fangshan District, Tongzhou District, Beijing, Zhongguancun, Shunyi District, Huairou District, Fengtai District, Changping District, Dongcheng District, Beijing, List of administrative divisions of Beijing, Sanlitun, Xicheng District, Beijing central business district, Daxing District, Wangjing, Beijing, Mentougou District, Shijingshan District, Pinggu District, Wudaokou, Yanqing County, Yangzhen Town, Miyun County, Huanghuacheng, Panjiayuan, Hepingli, Chaowai, Yabaolu, Tiantongyuan, Chongwen District, Xuanwu District, Beijing, Guomao, Beijing, Xiaotangshan, Ju Jun, Beijing Olympic Village, Fangzhuang, Dashanzi, Gaoliying, Beijing, Dabeiyao, Yayuncun, Chuiyangliu. Excerpt: 798 Art Zone (Chinese: pinyin: 798 Yishuq ), or Dashanzi Art District, is a part of Dashanzi in the Chaoyang District of Beijing that houses a thriving artistic community, among 50-year old decommissioned military factory buildings of unique architectural style. It is often compared with New York's Greenwich Village or SoHo. The area is often called the 798 Art District or Factory 798 although technically, Factory #798 is only one of several structures within a complex formerly known as Joint Factory 718. The buildings are located inside alleys number 2 and 4 on Ji xi nqiao Lu ( ), south of the Dash nziqiao flyover ( ). 798 Space gallery, Jan,2009. Old Maoist slogans are visible on the ceiling arches.The Dashanzi factory complex began as an extension of the "Socialist Unification Plan" of military-industrial cooperation between the Soviet Union and the newly formed People's Republic of China. By 1951, 156 "joint factory" projects had been realized under that agreement, part of the Chinese government's first Five-...