Considering that their nation is preparing so stealthily to dominate the future, China’s artists seem strangely anxious about what that future may bring. But that is as it should be. We search in vain for signs of nervousness among politicians and business leaders. Tentativeness is not in their vocabulary; not if they want to be successful. Artists, however, are obliged to question everything. And that everything, in China’s case, includes the prospect of leading a tremulous world deep into the torrid unknowns of the 21st century.
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