Wow - blues in Beijing. I was in Beijing in 1989, just on eve of Tienenman Square massacre in which my late wife who stayed on after I had left was much involved & had to flee under gunfire. I was lecturing for the British Council on English Folksong in Chinese Universities in Beijing & Guilin, based at the Beijing Languages Univ. It was a scruffy, dusty heap of a city then: I am told I wouldn't recognise it these days. & now it has its own blues & jam band — wonder if anyone involved or any of its audience recall any of my 20-years-ago lectures [my English Folksong brief I took to mean 'in the English language' - I was lecturing to students of English - so American songs were included].