Beijing reggae club hoping for some Marley power
Beijing reggae club hoping for some Marley power
“It’s going to be very difficult to bring reggae to China, but this is a start.” Former IT engineer Robin Liao looks out from the terrace of ‘Together’, Beijing’s first reggae bar, at this unlikely setting for a rasta revolution. A man in his 70s stops his shuffling and tries to fathom the existence of a wooden beach shack sandwiched between a noodle restaurant and someone’s washing. The local rag-and-bone man puts the brakes on his cart to stare at the green, yellow and red stripes on the door. The next 30-storey building of the CBD in the east of the city is a backdrop that is modern China.
