Found: Chinese Hipsters

Back in April, David Goodman of Slate got the internet buzzing with his question, "why are there no hipsters in China?" His argument, in a nutshell, was that China was simply too poor for anyone to be ironic about aping the habits of the lower classes. I critiqued the argument in a blog post at the time, but a friend sends me a photo he just took in Beijing that settles the argument once and for all: