50 Moganshan Road

This guide to 50 Moganshan Road in Shanghai begins on a winter night in 1990, when a fire destroyed a young painter's studio and, sifting through the ash, he found a technique that would define his career. It follows Xue Song a decade later to an abandoned cotton mill on Moganshan Road, silent since the 1990s, where cheap rent drew him and then other painters into its empty rooms. You'll hear how a stretch of brick warehouses along Suzhou Creek quietly turned into an art district. Wander the former factory floors slowly, gallery by gallery, to see where his story led.