Don't Bring Your Skateboard To China
- Text by Shelley Jones
When Johnny Tang first moved to China his mum told him there were only “dirt roads and horses” to try and suppress his desire to skate – a pretty non-traditional pastime for a grown man in Shanghai. But what Johnny Tang found instead was a giant skatepark.
We travel to Shanghai to meet Johnny and find out what skating looks like in an authoritarian state — in our latest video in collaboration with Levi’s Skateboarding, to celebrate The Skateboarding Special II – stories of independence in skateboarding worldwide – .
You can read more about the nascent scene in this story by Charlotte Middlehurst, originally printed in The Skateboarding Special II itself.
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