Ver PelisPlus. In China, culture and the arts are very closely linked to people and their lives. The street life in Beijing is a 24-hour live show full of music, dance and sports. Over a period of month residence time (September 2007), I was observing Chinese life, collecting road images, documenting quotidian performances. I saw a city that's literally exploding, in early transition from the ancient to the modern, preparing for hosting the 2008 Olympics.