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A handful of entrepreneurs are opening clubs and founding workshops designed around inclusivity for disabled Chinese. It was a sweltering August evening, but business was brisk at HandyCup, a pub located on Shanghai’s historic Xinhua Road. As customers trickled in, some ordered craft beers and looked for a seat, while others simply rolled their wheelchairs up to the bar. HandyCup is Shanghai’s first “accessible pub.” Although China passed new accessibility regulations for public facilities last September, accessible “third spaces” — places outside the home or workplace — remain few in number. Even high-profile experiments like Shanghai’s Hinichijou Café, which employs deaf baristas, still largely play into stereotypes of the Deaf community as service workers rather than fully rounded individuals. In contrast, emerging accessible third spaces like HandyCup, which opened in May, have been more explicit in their attempts to break down barriers and promote integration. B
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