2009-10-14
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Meishi Street will be showed at Portland Art Museum on November 19, 2009. Click for details.
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2009-10-5
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| Meishi Stree is taking part in Tirana Biennale. More Images |
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2009-9-10
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Meishi Street showed at Duke University on September 9, 2009. Click for details.
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2009-6-23
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Meishi Stree's DVD is available amazon.com since June 23, 2009. It is published by dGenerate Films, New York. Click for details.
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2009-3-11
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| Meishi Street will be shown at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City on March 27.Click for details. |
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2009-1-24
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Meishi Street will be screened in Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona on Jan 31.Click for details.
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2008-11-27
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Meishi Street participated in the 3rd Beijing Independent Film Festival and had a screening in Fanhall Films Studio in Song Village at 8pm, Nov 26. Director Ou Ning and the main role Zhang Jinli participated in the film screening and joined the discussion with about a hundred film viewers. The festival is supported and organised by Li Xianting's Film Fund. See More Photos Photos by Sun Xiaoxi.
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2008-10-23, 11-06, 11-13
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| Meishi Street participated in the 6th Hong Kong Social Movement Film Festival and will be screened on Oct 23, Nov 06, and Nov 13, 2008. Click for details. |
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2008-10-18
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| Oct 18, in Train Spotting Cafe, Ou Ning screened San Yuan Li and Meishi Street and joined the discussion after it. Click for details. |
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2008-10-13
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| Michael Meyer published a book about Da Zha Lan, the old Beijing area in June 2008. The book, named The Last Days of Old Beijing, talks about his sublet life in a traditional courtyard in Da Zha Lan and how his various neighbors despite great differences in background formed this unique neighborhood. Click for details. |
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2008-10-01
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| Meishi Street had a free screening, as part of InSight's 12-week Beyond the Frame season supported by Film London, in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Click for details. |
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2008-9-23
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| Ou Ning screened Meishi Street in five universities in the US and participated in the discussion with the audience. |
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| Meishi Street got screened in Stanford University. ChinaRains, the student organization of China studies, held this event. Click for details. |
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| Meishi Street got screened at Columbia University. Bao Weihong, professor of the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, hosted the event. Click for details. |
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| Meishi Street got screened in Michigan State University. Ren Xuefei, professor of the Department of Sociology hosted the event. Click for details. |
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2008-8-8
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| The 2008 Beijing Olympics opens today. Qianmen Avenue Renovation Project is open to public for the first time also. More Images Photographs by Ou Ning |
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2008-8-2
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| Journalist from The Economic Obeserver reported the renovation project of Qianmen Avenue. Click here and read. |
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2008-7-28
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| Journalist of Baltimore Sun, Rick Maese reported the change to Beijing's old areas brought by the 2008 Olympics. Click here and read. |
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2008-7-17
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| Beijing Culture Heritage Protection Centre screened Meishi Street in SOHU Mansion, Beijing. The main role Zhang Jinli and director Ou Ning participated in the discussion after it. |
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2008-7-15
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| After struggling for nearly 3 years, Zhang Jinli finally got his relocation housing in Daqijia Hutong with the same area and value as his orginal house at No 117 on Meishi Street. This is a victory of a civilian. Refer to his blog for details. Photographs by Sun Xiaoxi |
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2008-6-17
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| Journalist of Associate Press, Henry Sanderson reported on the renovation of Beijing's Qianmen area. Click here and read. |
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2008-6-10
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| Ou Ning screened Meishi Street at IASPIA in Stockholm and had a open conversation with Ulrika K Engstrom, the author of Den Harmoniska Revolutionen: Rebeller, Patrioter och Vanliga Kineser. See more details. |
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2008-6-5
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| Prince Charles is concerned about the historical protection and renovation of Qianmen area of Beijing, reported by The Guardian. |
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2008-6-1
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| The Thai edition of Wallpaper published an issue with Rave of Beijing as cover story, including an interview with Ou Ning and Cao Fei about Da Zha Lan Project. |
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2008-5-30
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| Meishi Street got screened in Center for Architecture, New York. A/P/A Studies Program & Institute of NYU, AIA New York chapter and People's Architecture organized the event as part of Building China Exhibition. Refer to the website of AIA New York chapter for details and report from World Daily. |
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2008-5-23
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| Meishi Street got screened in the club of Southern Metropolis Daily in Guangzhou. Check Pioneer Movie News for details. |
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2008-4-15
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Meishi Street participated in Communities of Tastes (Apr 15, 2008-Jun 9, 2008), the opening exhibition of Iberia Center for Contemporary Art founded by IAC.
Screening schedule: Apr 19, 2008 (13:00-14:15); Apr 29, 2008 (15:00 -16:30);May 18, 2008 (14:45 -16:15);May 23, 2008 (15:30-17:00);Jun 1, 2008 (13:00-14:30);Jun 6, 2008 (14:45-16:15).
Venue: Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, 798 Art District, No 4, Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing
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2008-3-22
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Meishi Street participated in La Rue est a Nous… Tous!(The Streets are Ours!) exhibition(Mar 22, 2008-Apr 6, 2008) corporately organized by Institut pour la Ville en Mouvement (French Dynamic City Foundation), Urban China magazine, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art and Tongji University in Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art.
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2008-3-15
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Urban China magazine features a co-authored essay Da Zha Lan and Sulukule: Modernity and Its Outcasts in Asia by Ou Ning, Wong Hoy Cheong and Alessandra Cappelletti, which gives a comparative research on two slums in Beijing and Istanbul.
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2008-2-16
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Invited by SOHO China, Ou Ning composed a 13,000-character article, Urbanization and its Confrontation(Chinese version only), discussing the urbanization campaigns and confrontation events coming along in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan area.
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2008-2-9
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Meishi Street participated at Beijing on Screen held by London Chinese Cultural Centre. It’s screened once at BFI Southbank on Feb 9, 2008 and once at Museum in Docklands on Mar 2, 2008.
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2008-1-10
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Meishi Street was shown once in Close up China unit at Babylon Cinema in Berlin
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2007-11-10
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Meishi Street participated at Chinema Direct programme and was shown on Nov 10 and 18, 2007 at Nova Cinema in Brussels.
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2007-10-19
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| Travel + Leisure, an American magazine, published Michael Z. Wise’s article Boomtown Beijing. |
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2007-10-15
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In his Beijing office, Ou Ning introduced The Da Zha Lan Project to the Beijing historical protection working group corporately composed by OMA/AMO and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
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2007-10-10
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| Ou Ning accepted an online interview with Sonja Ernst, journalist from the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Cologne, Germany. Read the interview: Chinese version / English version |
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2007-9-14
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| The documentary film Meishi Street participated the second Tianlin Screening organized by Helen Cui, Zhang Xianmin and Cui Weiping at Jindianfang Cinema, Beijing. See the feedback of the audiences here. |
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2007-9-8
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The Da Zha Lan Project participated the The 10th Istanbul Biennial curated by Hou Hanru(9.8-11.4,2007), presented the documentary Meishi Street, the photograph Meishi Street Panorama and some sound works. See more photos.
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2007-8-7
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| Spanish Media features Qianmen area in Beijing. Read here. |
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2007-6-23
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The Da Zha Lan Project participated Borderline Moving Images 2007 in Beijing (6.23-7.7,2007), presented the documentary film Meishi Street.
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2007-6-9
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The Da Zha Lan Project participated the exhibition On The Outside: The Social Engine-Exploring Flexibility at ACC Galerie, Weimar(6.9-8.12,2007), presented the documentary film Meishi Street. See
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2007-5-3
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Meishi Street, May 3, 2007. Photographs by Ou Ning. See
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The two-year widening construction project of Meishi Street finished on November 18, 2006, which costs 450 millions RMB. It is a north-south-one-way street, total 1078.8 metres, wide 25 metres.
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2007-5-1
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Art & Investment Magazine features three Da Zha Lan essays by Ou Ning and a review by Zhang Yaxuan on documentary Meishi Street. Read Zhang Yaxuan’s review here(only Chinese).
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2007-3-29
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Ou Ning presented The Da Zha Lan Project in Urban Body working group of TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture (Netherlands) at Tsinghua University.
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2007-3-29
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The Da Zha Lan Project participated the exhibition Who do you think you are?, curated by Adriana Forconi at Base B, Milano Bovisa during March 29 to April 10, 2007, presented the documentary Meishi Street(Short Version), the photograph Meishi Street Panorama. See
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2007-3-28
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| The Da Zha Lan Project participated the World Factory exhibition curated by Hou Hanru at Walter and McBean Galleries of San Francisco Art Institute during March 28 to April 21, 2007, presented the documentary Meishi Street, the photograph Meishi Street Panorama and some sound works. See
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2007-3-25
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The Da Zha Lan Project had 3 homeshows at OMA architect Andre Schmidt’s Salon in Beijing during March 21,23 and 25, 2007, presented the documentary Meishi Street and the photograph Meishi Street Panorama.
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2007-3-6
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| Ou Ning presented The Da Zha Lan Project to graduate students from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) in his studio in Beijing. |
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2007-2-8
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| Ou Ning was invited to introduce The Da Zha Lan Project to the artists in residence in CCA Kitakyushu in Japan |
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