Martijn de Waal

In the fall of 2003, Chris Bajema and I travelled along the big cities of china’s east coast, reporting weekly for the Dutch Daily NPR-program De Ochtenden, and daily on our weblog. We made radio documentaries about free speech and talk radio in Hong Kong, migrants in Shenzhen, Chinese style tourism in Xiamen, we visited the birth place of the then new space hero Yang Liwei, and ended with a feature on the Beijing Art Scene in the then new Factory 798 – and old military supply factory turned into an art loft district. You can still listen to these reportages, the ones I probably like best is this one on the Beijing art scene and this one on the mythmaking of China’s first astronaut.

The project was set up in cooperation with the VPRO, the channel /Geschiedenis and produced by our friends from Submarine.

Our website was nominated for the ‘Golden Pixel’ a Dutch price for online journalism.