China's forgotten places and urban dystopias

Abandoned places in China / 中国废墟
Architecture and history / 建筑与历史
Urban explorations outside China / 中国以外的城市探险
- France / 法国
- Hong Kong / 香港
Inspiring artists and art work / 艺术家和艺术作品
Research Project on Urban Ruins / 废墟研究计划
- Research Network on Urban Ruins in Contemporary China / 当代中国城市废墟的研究网络

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« Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away »

Philip K. Dick, How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later, 1978

Urban exploration in China: a fascinating escape

Have you ever wanted to travel without going too far? Looking for and finding lost places in a city is a challenge but usually worth the efforts. Entering abandoned places feels like stepping in another dimension of space and time: the urban picture one saw before is now distorted, and one accesses an alternate reality, standing there just as “true” as the “normal” one, but less visible, less accessible, less well-known... And that is the beauty of it, when the materiality of the place, its ecosystem, tells us its story without any intermediary. Some fear the danger or the dirtiness, but others can appreciate a true magic in the forbidden, forgotten, urban space.
In China, this is not a massive hobby. And yet, exploring abandoned or hidden places in Chinese cities is really stimulating: Western/Chinese style buildings from the beginning of the 20th century, socialist architecture of the 1950s, fast urbanization and gigantic ambitious planning projects turning out to be failures... I want to share some discoveries without putting the places at risk: please don't ask me for precise locations, the search is part of the fun anyway!

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Websites about abandoned places in China and East Asia

"Phantom Shanghai", by Greg Girard
"Unborn cities", by Kai Caemmerer
Abandoned Kansai
Burbex
HK Urbex
Jordy Meow
LI Yang - 404 NOT FOUND
Shrinking cities in China by Sixth Tone
Synapticism
Tomboy Urbex
Xiao Yang ruin photography
Zeng Han's photography project on "hyper reality China"

Websites about abandoned places

Glauque-Land
Marchand & Meffre Photography
Misanthropologue - Explorer l'urbex

Chinese subcultures

A digital archive on alternative music in contemporary China
Beijing Silvermine / 北京银矿
Live Beijing Music
Genjing Records

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