S01 Episode 3 Xiao Hai Goes to RMB City The first thing Xiao Hai (小海) mentioned when we met up was that one time he slept on a bench outside UCCA in the summer of 2016, when he first arrived in Beijing. He didn’t have a place to stay at the time, but he wanted to do something with art.
S01 Episode 3 When Professor Notices You: Why Is China’s Ryuichi Sakamoto Fandom So Weird? Sakamoto has inspired a highly specific kind of adulation, which, when closely examined, reveals gaps in China’s own music industry. But if Sakamoto is the Professor, what has China’s music scene learned from him?
