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Beats and bureaucracy: How Rainbow Gao brought the rave to the Great Wall

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Published: May 26th, 2025,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Rainbow Gao raving on the Great Wall.

You wouldn’t know that Rainbow Gao has been turning night into day for decades. Relaxed and awake, the 61-year-old sits at the kitchen table in her house in a Shanghai suburb, sipping lemonade and petting her dog and cat as they brush against her legs. As an entrepreneur and DJ, she has shaped modern pop culture in China – always with the aim of helping alternative lifestyles gain more recognition in China. Rainbow is a living legend, and not just in the country’s club scene. She has always taken up everything that aroused her curiosity as a project. To this day.

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