Christian Petersen-Clausen
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Christian Petersen-Clausen
@memostothefuture.bsky.social
Documentary Filmmaker, based in China.
25+ year Expat. I won't die on a couch.

坚持就是胜利。
There is zero upside now, unlike during the Covid Shanghai Lockdowns.
November 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Wouldn't the shop be cleared out then? Rent inside the terminal is crazy expensive.
November 28, 2025 at 4:16 AM
The show is on 11/28 at Jazz Lincoln in Shanghai.
You can buy tickets on Showstart and Damai.

We very much appreciate your support.

If you choose to purchase a ticket and the event is cancelled the online platforms will refund you automatically.
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This is, obviously, us playing poker.
Maybe someone forgot to cancel the show.

We certainly already paid for flights, hotels, buses, stage, instrument rentals.

This may just work out and it may be the only chance to see him in China in a while!
November 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Checklists demand flaps to be dropped upon engine start, I believe?
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
do tell more
November 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I appreciate you saying that.

I find the customization of cultural influences here in China so fascinating and have lots more on that to say.
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Also special about Jazz in China is how quickly word spreads through social media. I expect the crowd tomorrow to be small and by Saturday to have doubled in size. The most passionate fans soft-brag to each other on Xiaohongshu, creating the fear of missing out.
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My gut feeling is that this is because Jazz here wasn't the music of previous generations; young Chinese fans discovered Jazz for themselves and see it as "their thing" that fits into their desire for a higher-quality lifestyle.
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Chinese Jazz fans are also often extremely knowledgable and in spite of often coming from ordinary backgrounds willing to spend significant sums on original first-edition vinyl records that they'll bring to get signed.

I fully expect to see some show up with Suzuki's "Friends."
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Jazz in China attracts a unique crowd: the average age range here is 20-35 whereas Jazz musicians in Japan attract people in their 70s and 80s. This often deeply impresses and delights the musicians and has made us (as Concert organizers in China) quite popular with them abroad.
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Suzuki is a really exciting member of the Japanese jazz scene and we are proud to have gotten his Quintet for China. He spent many years in NYC, where he played for years with Stan Getz and Art Blakey.
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Yes, you can.

But I don't see evidence that you should.
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
After the completion of the Hotel, Andy Andreasen went on to lead Baker McKenzie in China. Later, he became the first Executive Director of the Stanford Center at Peking University.

Read more about this incredible life and this project on Substack:

livinghistorychina.substack.com/p/andy-andre...
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The man who managed to convince banks to let him bring an astonishing $72million into China in 1979 ($295mm today) was the legendary CB Sung, who also started the Beijing Jeep Joint Venture.

The Great Wall Hotel was the largest of the first three approved Joint Ventures.
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The Great Wall Hotel was designed by the same architects that envisioned the LAX Theme Building.

During its four decades in operation it hosted foreign dignitaries like Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Li-Ka-shing 李嘉诚 or, on one random day I stayed there, North Korean diplomats.
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM