798:Beijing’s Soho Art Village

In Dashanzi outside the northeast4th loop road in Beijing, there is a factorynumbered 798. Old residents in Beijingperhaps know that it was a secret factoryin the past. But now it has become aworld famous Soho art village.On a weekend in the hot summer, Ivisited the studio of Prof. Wang Tieniufrom the art school of TsinghuaUniversity, which is located in 798Factory. He was revising a huge oilpainting which featured an anti-Japanesebattle scene. “This oil work is created inhonor of the 6…