China

Longer video interview with Sarah

Shanghai seems to be a neon echo of many other major cosmopolitan Asian cities: Foreign investors stake their claim on the skyline with towering, eclectically designed skyscrapers; city life is a mix of old school Asian culture and Westernized ‘modernism’; Sex and the City wanna-be’s rub elbows on the sidewalks with beggars; and Caucasian men […]

Shanghai is extremely modern and not exactly what I was expecting. China is in the midst of an economic and technological boom. Young Chinese are growing up in a vastly different culture from that of there parents generation. You can get anything you want here. The city is extremely cosmopolitan bursting with the latest in […]

Shanghai seems to be a neon echo of many other major cosmopolitan Asian cities: Foreign investors stake their claim on the skyline with towering, eclectically designed skyscrapers; city life is a mix of old school Asian culture and Westernized ‘modernism’; Sex and the City wanna-be’s rub elbows on the sidewalks with beggars; and Caucasian men […]

It’s our second day here in Shanghai. My first day was a bit miserable. I got some kind of a stomach bug and spent 20 hours in bed. I am feeling way better now and I’m looking forward to filming today. The rest of the team filmed most of yesterday without me. I did however […]

Bao, a poet and spoken-word artist from Minneapolis, traveled with The Listening Project to China, France, and Mexico…