{"id":1584,"date":"2011-06-30T22:10:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T14:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdnphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2020-09-23T15:23:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:23:23","slug":"2011-strawberry-festival-chinese-hipster-gathering-and-related-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2011\/06\/30\/2011-strawberry-festival-chinese-hipster-gathering-and-related-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Strawberry Festival: Chinese Hipster Gathering and Related Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110501_strawberry_festival_hipster_audience_beijing_china_music002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1588\" title=\"The audience flips out for Miserable Faith the 2011 Strawberry Festival at the Tongzhou Canal Park outside of Beijing\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110501_strawberry_festival_hipster_audience_beijing_china_music002.jpg\" alt=\"The audience flips out for Miserable Faith the 2011 Strawberry Festival at the Tongzhou Canal Park outside of Beijing\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might be able to tell by now, but I am way behind on my posts. These shots were all taken during the second day of the 2011 Strawberry Festival on May 1. Whoops. Anyway, better late than never. The rise of the Chinese hipster brought much controversy this past year. There were\u00a0<a title=\"Beijing Rock Scene Is Inspired by Western Hipster Chic Rather Than the Search for a Deeper Soul - Huffington Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/alice-xin-liu\/beijing-rock-scene-is-ins_b_566874.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">naysayers<\/a> calling them hacks and shallow followers, others too clueless to know where to look in the first place, while some dug deeper and provided taxonomies or even tracked Chinese <a title=\"ACCIDENTAL CHINESE HIPSTERS - Tumblr\" href=\"http:\/\/accidentalchinesehipsters.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00fcberhipsters<\/a> (trans-identity-meta-hipster-awesomeness). So, despite the general <a title=\"Are There Really No Hipsters in China? - Slate.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2250893\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lack of irony and fixed-gear bikes<\/a> in China, I still stand behind my <a title=\"Beijing Hipsters Rock the 2010 MIDI Festival - mdnphoto.com\" href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2010\/05\/05\/beijing-hipsters-rock-the-2010-midi-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous assertions<\/a> of the importance of this new wave of urban youth trying to stand out from the crowd and make it on there own. Identity in urban china is an ever-mutating beast, but there is no denying that people are trying to reach deeper and tap into more creative currents. Alternative lifestyles, especially in Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Chengdu and Guangzhou are on the rise and need to be celebrated. Here are a few of those who are visually standing out for better or worse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110501_strawberry_festival_hipster_portraits_beijing_china_music005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligntriplel size-full wp-image-1589\" title=\"Hipsters and freaks rock out at the 2011 Strawberry Festival at the Tongzhou Canal Park outside of Beijing\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110501_strawberry_festival_hipster_portraits_beijing_china_music005.jpg\" alt=\"Hipsters and freaks rock out at the 2011 Strawberry Festival at the Tongzhou Canal Park outside of Beijing\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110501_strawberry_festival_hipster_portraits_beijing_china_music004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligntriplec size-full wp-image-1589\" title=\"Hipsters and freaks rock out at the 2011 Strawberry Festival at the Tongzhou Canal Park outside of Beijing\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110501_strawberry_festival_hipster_portraits_beijing_china_music004.jpg\" alt=\"Hipsters and freaks rock out at the 2011 Strawberry Festival at the Tongzhou Canal Park outside of Beijing\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110501_strawberry_festival_hipster_portraits_beijing_china_music003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligntripler size-full wp-image-1589\" title=\"Hipsters and freaks rock out at the 2011 Strawberry Festival at the Tongzhou Canal Park outside of Beijing\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110501_strawberry_festival_hipster_portraits_beijing_china_music003.jpg\" alt=\"Hipsters and freaks rock out at the 2011 Strawberry Festival at the Tongzhou Canal Park outside of Beijing\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110501_strawberry_festival_hipster_portraits_beijing_china_music006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligntriplel size-full wp-image-1589\" title=\"Hipsters and freaks rock out at the 2011 Strawberry Festival at the Tongzhou Canal Park outside of Beijing\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110501_strawberry_festival_hipster_portraits_beijing_china_music006.jpg\" alt=\"Hipsters and freaks rock out at the 2011 Strawberry Festival at the Tongzhou Canal Park outside of Beijing\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110501_strawberry_festival_hipster_portraits_beijing_china_music001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligntriplec size-full wp-image-1589\" title=\"Hipsters and freaks rock out at the 2011 Strawberry Festival at the Tongzhou Canal Park outside of Beijing\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110501_strawberry_festival_hipster_portraits_beijing_china_music001.jpg\" alt=\"Hipsters and freaks rock out at the 2011 Strawberry Festival at the Tongzhou Canal Park outside of Beijing\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110501_strawberry_festival_hipster_portraits_beijing_china_music002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligntripler size-full wp-image-1589\" title=\"Hipsters and freaks rock out at the 2011 Strawberry Festival at the Tongzhou Canal Park outside of Beijing\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110501_strawberry_festival_hipster_portraits_beijing_china_music002.jpg\" alt=\"Hipsters and freaks rock out at the 2011 Strawberry Festival at the Tongzhou Canal Park outside of Beijing\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110501_strawberry_festival_hipster_audience_beijing_china_music001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1587\" title=\"The audience waits for Hedgehog to come on stage at the 2011 Strawberry Festival at the Tongzhou Canal Park outside of Beijing\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110501_strawberry_festival_hipster_audience_beijing_china_music001.jpg\" alt=\"The audience waits for Hedgehog to come on stage at the 2011 Strawberry Festival at the Tongzhou Canal Park outside of Beijing\" 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These shots were all taken during the second day of the 2011 Strawberry Festival on May 1. Whoops. Anyway, better late than never. The rise of the Chinese hipster brought much controversy this past year. There were\u00a0naysayers calling them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,17],"tags":[39,79,160,202,274,280,315,358,371,374,451],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion_category","category-music_category","category-youth_category","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-fashion","tag-hipster","tag-modern-sky","tag-music","tag-portraits","tag-society","tag-strawberry-festival","tag-style","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}