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798 ART DISTRICT
A vast area of disused factories built by the East Germans, 798 Art District (798 Qī Jiǔ Bā Yìshù Qū), also known
as Dà Shānzi, is Běijīng's leading concentration of contemporary art galleries. The industrial complex celebrates
its proletarian roots in the communist heyday of the 1950s via retouched red Maoist slogans decorating gallery in-
teriors and statues of burly, lantern-jawed workers dotting the lanes. The voluminous factory workshops are
ideally suited to art galleries that require space for multimedia installations and other ambitious projects.
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