Above: Cui Jian exhorting the crowd in Hunan to kick loose and boogieAn epic weekend. Two cities, Changsha which I’d never been to and Wuhan which I hadn’t visited in 20 years. Three rock bands and a “concert on the sand”... ...full story at Shanghai Journal
from Shanghai Journal on Wed, Sep 05 2007
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