Phew! All of my old entries are now on this blog, and I'll be updating here from now on.
My friend sent an interesting email to me a few weeks ago in regards to creative innovation. Since the Communist Party is oftentimes hell bent on monitoring and censoring Chinese art and other forms of expression--the incarceration of artist Ai Weiwei comes to mind--how can anyone create in the country? In Nanjing--and presumedly other Chinese cities--there were secret art galleries off the beaten path, kept hush-hush unless you know who to talk to. Some people think fondly of art as an addiction, a drug, but in China it's pretty much true.
Two sides of the argument, as listed in the email:
My friend sent an interesting email to me a few weeks ago in regards to creative innovation. Since the Communist Party is oftentimes hell bent on monitoring and censoring Chinese art and other forms of expression--the incarceration of artist Ai Weiwei comes to mind--how can anyone create in the country? In Nanjing--and presumedly other Chinese cities--there were secret art galleries off the beaten path, kept hush-hush unless you know who to talk to. Some people think fondly of art as an addiction, a drug, but in China it's pretty much true.
Two sides of the argument, as listed in the email:
(written by a Chinese citizen)
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/"Fifteen out of 35 living artists worldwide who command seven-digit sales for their work are Chinese."
"If these facts do not demonstrate innovation, what does?"
and:
Watch: Chinese animators blatantly copy entire Japanese cartoon from the 90s frame for frame
Made by a company that, last year, the State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT) labeled as one of the top ten producers of original animation in China.It's no secret that plagiarism is rampant in China and copyright is frequently ignored. Did you know that there's a fake Disneyland and a theme park based on Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft and WarCraft games? And you can buy pirated DVDs for about $2 a disk, most at decent quality. I should know; I had about 80 of them...!
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