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...minority. The Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs were traditionally the dominant ethnic group in the region whose Mandarin name, Xinjiang, means simply "New Frontier" - perhaps a reflection of the fact that the region was only brought under Beijing's control in its entirety during the 19th century rein of the Qing dynasty. And this week they have found themselves in violent confrontation with Han Chinese, who have become a significant majority in the capital, Urumqi, thanks to Beijing's settlement policies...
...uncommon for Chinese students to, for the first time, read about western political treatises, thoughts on democracy, liberal governance, judicial independence, the free press, checks and balances of government, and other ideas. "Every book was out quickly - books that aren't even allowed in China today," said Zhou Qing, who spent almost two years in prison for his participation in the 1989 affairs. It was also a time when a new generation of Chinese activists, to which the likes of Meng and Zhou belonged, came...
...Anyuan, Liu Chenhua explains that he started painting pictures of Mao when he was a child "because I have always had deep feelings for him." Those sentiments come through in his depiction of Mao as a handsome young scholar standing on a mountaintop under swiftly moving clouds. With Jiang Qing's endorsement, it became a "model artwork" and was reproduced more than 900 million times. In the video, Liu explains that a group of printers came to him apologizing that his given name, Chenghua, had been misspelled as Chenhua on the first batch of reproductions. He told them...
...Though they were produced in murderous times, the works at the Asia Society are almost uniformly cheery, following the dictum of Jiang Qing, Mao's fourth wife and ultimate cultural arbiter, that art be "red, bright and shining." In other words: propaganda. Asia Society Museum Director Melissa Chiu and co-curator Zheng Shengtian argue in the show's excellent catalog, however, that, didactic or not, socialist art represented a "significant cultural movement in China" - one that produced some "truly great art," especially paintings, and that such works "continue to influence Chinese visual culture." The contemporary installation artist Xu Bing, whose...
...from interference or mishandling. When Shen Jiawei's Standing Guard for Our Great Motherland - a heroic masterpiece of three guards in a watchtower high above a snowy landscape - was first exhibited in Beijing in 1974, the faces of the soldiers had been made fuller, fiercer and pinker on Jiang Qing's orders. In the present exhibition, the painting has been restored to the image intended by the artist, now a highly acclaimed portraitist in Australia...