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Josh Feola

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Josh Feola moved in 2010 from the US to Beijing, where he is a writer, musician, and former booking manager at two of Beijing’s leading live music venues. He has written about Chinese music and art for a variety of foreign and Chinese publications, operates the net-label Sinotronics, curates Sally Can’t Dance, China’s leading experimental and avant garde music festival, and plays drums in Beijing band SUBS.

Chinese shoppers in a store in a hutong in Beijing, China.

Censored by the Government, Artists Fight Back Against Beijing’s ‘Renovation’

By Josh Feola and Michael Pettis
A woman passes through a neighborhood being demolished to make way for new developments in Beijing. Once common, hutongs are becoming a rare sight in the capital.

Inner City Beijing Is Being Quickly Drained of Character

By Michael Pettis and Josh Feola
Ren Hang's photo of Carsick Cars.

Photographer Ren Hang Filled Chinese Culture Void for Urban Youth

By Josh Feola and Michael Pettis
Chinese band Stolen performs on stage during the Trans Musicales music festival in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, western France.

China’s Great Firewall Blocks Protests and Music Alike

By Josh Feola and Michael Pettis
A large screen shows the final total gross merchandise volume, a measure of sales, after 24 hours of Singles Day sales, at the Tmall 11:11 Global Shopping Festival gala in Shenzhen, in south China's Guangdong province early on November 12, 2016.

Singles’ Day Celebrates China’s Most Prized Demographic: The Unattached

By Josh Feola and Michael Pettis
Visitors browse Chinese political books at the Hong Kong Book Fair in Hong Kong on July 18, 2012.

China’s New ‘Ultra-Unreal’ Fiction: Only Strange Art Can Explain It

By Josh Feola and Michael Pettis
Chinese Literature Nobel laureate Mo Yan attends the the second session of the 12th National Committee of CPPCC at the The Great Hall of the People on March 4, 2014 in Beijing, China.

Chinese Literature Finds Its Place

By Josh Feola and Michael Pettis
Senior high students cast shredded paper to release stress before the college entrance exams at a high school in Handan, north China's Hebei province

Why Chinese Education Fails the Doers and the Dreamers

By Josh Feola and Michael Pettis
BEIJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 27: A Chinese man walks past a major construction project in a Hutong, or traditional neighborhood on October 27, 2014 in Beijing, China. Economic data show that the country's growth dropped to a five year low and is slowing due to a decrease in exports and property development in recent months, reports say.

The Gentrification of Beijing’s Hutongs Is Evident in Music

By Michael Pettis and Josh Feola
A woman walks under the rain with her umbrella in a hutong in Beijing on June 9, 2015. AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR

Hutong History and the Brooklynization of Beijing

By Michael Pettis and Josh Feola
A woman walks past a wall painting of the Beijing subway system inside at a station in Beijing on May 9, 2016. As part of measures to try to limit the size of Beijing and relieve traffic congestion and reduce air pollution, some Beijing Subway lines or other commuter transport lines will expand to cities in Hebei. / AFP / WANG ZHAO

Where Chinese Creativity Emerges

By Josh Feola and Michael Pettis
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