Photo: Soldier, engulfed

Beijing is a city undergoing rapid change. Galleries are springing up in the most unlikely of places like abandoned warehouses and down residential lanes in old courtyards. Visiting them though is a pleasure since the local interest does not seem to have kept up with the amount of exhibition spaces opening, and a lot of spaces are blatantly empty. Maybe that is why this soldier thought of it as a good place to have an undisturbed lunchtime read.