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Art in China

 
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    The West is so arrogant

    Waling runs an art gallery in Beijing. He expresses his views on topics as freedom of speech and freedom in general.

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      vincesmithuk I do believe the UK will be batter off without you. You obviously have the intelligence of a subnormal carrot and your ...

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      kevoknew celtic paedophile club...jock stein knew and did nothing.....bjk

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      bokualec I don't think I can really take anyone seriously who says "the East" as though China and Japan similar in any way. ...

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    Wei Wei and his band of friends

    We met a young man named Wei Wei during our trip in Beijing last year. He showed us around in the rehearsal space of his band, played a few songs and told us what it's like to be young in a city like Beijing.

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    The other Olympics in China

    Ever wondered if the Olympics in China (in 2008) could have looked differently? The Xijing Men - three artists from various Asian countries - probably did when they came up with their exhinition: Xijing. It's about a city also named Xijing where the Olympic Games are held. Only thing is that these Olympics are, welll....different. Contains footage from the exhibition by the way.

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    The post-eighties generation in China

    " The new generation is totally different from before...they just want to be happy, and are not politically interested"....says Ou Ning who is a writer, artist and curator about the Beijing youngsters born in the late 1980's.
    "Is this true???"....." Couscous Global investigates...
    All this filled in with lots of nice footage from in and around Beijing of course. :-)

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      Thanks for the video. Ou Ning used to encourage this urban youth to design and create. In some way, his manifesto 'Get it Louder' is ...

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      very interesting, thanks for the post But I guess some assumptions about the post-1980s generation is very generalising. To say that ...

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      Youth culture politics in China interest me a great deal. "Blargh" and "PenguinA," and others, can you tell me where ...