Word: xiaodong
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...major People's Liberation Navy base, only reconfirmed the authors' notion of foreign states bent on encroaching upon China. "If Obama wants to talk about world peace, not sending troops abroad and so on, then what is the U.S. Navy doing in the South China Sea?" says Wang Xiaodong, a nationalist scholar who contributed several chapters to Unhappy China...
...Xiaodong was too lost in his delicate brushstrokes - too deep in the trash heap beneath an East Naples underpass - to notice his visitors: a pair of helmetless (and humorless) teenagers, who had quietly rolled in on a moped as the star Chinese painter added touches of color to his latest en plein air work of social neo-realism...
...banana crates and Sicilian oranges, boxes from made-in-Vietnam Nike sneakers, Dior perfume from France, and Glutatione and Metoclopramide medicines bottles from Milan. No sign of any Made in China products. Of course, just like the empty bread bag and twisted remains of a pink baby stroller, Liu Xiaodong's latest product was Made in Naples. And like most of his paintings, it will likely be sold in China...
...Wang Xiaodong Researcher, China Youth Research Center, Beijing The Taiwan issue is the most urgent short-term problem in Sino-U.S. relations, but I believe two other issues are more important in the long term. One is relations between China and Japan. Second, as China grows stronger, the country will be obligated to play a larger role in maintaining world order. The U.S. needs to decide how to accept China...
...Rising, following the irresistibly silly antics of four bald men brandishing sabers as they parade through city streets and homes. Yang seems inspired by Mack Sennett, Monty Python and the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night. There are relatively few paintings or drawings on show. Liu Xiaodong paints scenes of daily life with thick, vigorous brush strokes in a Westernized style he calls "cynical realism"; his Through the Ages Heroes Have Come From the Young depicts a gritty street corner with two young men facing a group of three young women on bikes, all five dressed in school-uniform...