You are all invited to attend the public opening of ‘China Normal’, China Youthology’s exhibition of 3rd & 4th Tier City research findings. ‘China Normal’ is a compilation of photography, documentary film, and researc...
By Kevin Lee
Yesterday August the 8th, in the pristine courtyards of Ch’ienmen23, marked the third anniversary of “The mARkeT”, an exhibition initiated by The Beijing Center for the Arts (BCA) and co-hosted by BCA and TimeOut Beijing thi...
By Go Takayama
This is part of a series of posts ‘Demystifying Lower Tier China’.
It was already late evening as a taxi drove me from an airport in the city of Xuzhou. From a hotel we stayed about five minutes walk, there was a const...
By Go Takayama
This is part of a series of posts ‘Demystifying Lower Tier China’.
A graveled and muddied path on the way to Jilin from Changchun airport made me wonder more than once that if I would ever get to something like a ̵...
By Jay Mark Caplan
This is part of a series of posts ‘Demystifying Lower Tier China’.
In growing low tier cities, people are looking for different ways to spend their money. Why wait for international brands and franchises? Enterpris...
By Helen Yu
This is part of a series of posts ‘Demystifying Lower Tier China’.
In more than three weeks, we visited three cities – Tangshan, Guangan and Yiyang. We met dozens of friends and really touched by the stories they told us....
By Go Takayama
This is part of a series of posts ‘Demystifying Lower Tier China’.
After a long winter in Beijing, a research trip down to Yi Yang in Hunan province, which falls in subtropical humid climate, excited me at the very begin...
By Jay Mark Caplan
This is part of a series of posts ‘Demystifying Lower Tier China’.
(Photo by Go Takayama)
After talking to dozens of youth in low tier cities, from middle school students to middle class working adults, we fou...
By Jay Mark Caplan
This short documentary gives a snapshot of the lives of Guang’an Technical College students, mediocre students from low income families. For them the future is muddy and the present is often interminably boring. Their se...
We wrote about key impressions about youth’s life in Tangshan here. But nothing speaks better than video. This video includes street shots, vox pop, and interviews with high school students, university students, and opinion leaders. Video edite...