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798 Art District

Dashanzi Art District is located in the northeast of central Beijing. The heart of a growing art and culture community in Beijing, 798 Space is the center and the biggest space that provide cultural, artistic and commercial activities in the area. It was designed by the East German’s architects in the Bauhaus style in the early 1950’s. Through the reconstruction and redesigning with the contemporary aesthetics by artists, the space combines the past, present, and future of the “New China” and the unique meaning of the socialistic culture.

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