Chengdu Living

The historic 2011 Panda Electronic Music festival has just concluded. Here are our photos from all three days of the event which featured DJ Shadow.

After a year of absence, Chengdu’s best club is back. Xiong Mao has just opened in the newly constructed Chengdu East Music Park and brings a lot of promise with it.

Last Saturday I attended the Wall Lords graffiti battle in Chengdu, spending the afternoon watching incredible graffiti murals materialize in front of me. For Chengdu’s humble street art scene, this is the stuff of dreams. These are my photos.

Is this the end of a China dream? There’s a lot to learn from public response to the Wenzhou train crash which recently occurred.

Three years ago, Charlie and two friends set out on a daytime motorcycle trip to nearby Qingcheng Shan, one of the birthplaces of Daoism. Chaos ensued as the region was ravaged by a 9.0 earthquake.

Want to know what the biggest music event of the year in Chengdu was like? Experience it through 60+ photos right here.

Author Chris Taylor will be in Chengdu this weekend talking about his new novel, Harvest Season, an up close and unforgiving look at life in a town that is moving from traveler’s haven to tourist trap.

Several days ago I was informed of an anti-Japan demonstration taking place in the heart of Chengdu. “This one’s going to be big”, I heard. And big it was. I came back with photos to describe the experience.

I take a ride on the Chengdu Subway for the first time and come back with photos to chronicle the experience. Chengdu Subway: Day One.

Tired of hearing pop music in Chengdu bars and nightclubs?

This Friday at Panda Club the 8th monthly DISCO DEATH features Chengdu’s best DJ talent playing dubstep, drum & bass, and much more.