China Modern Art – 698 Beijing & Moganshan Shanghai

The Chinese soul is contending with radical development and change, rising alienation, hope and fear, repressed feelings, sexual and creative energy. Moganshan is an old factory neighborhood full of galleries and studios, similar to 798 in Beijing.

 urban capitalism, isolation, illusions of Mao's future

  

dejection, desperation, exhaustion

sexual repressions, oppressed emotions, fermenting desire if not expressed might destroy the Chinese soul but Beijing will do anything to repress the will of the people

Mao's Cultural Revolution all but destroyed religion and Christianity. In its wake is a deep emptiness, perhaps why Chinese culture can feel so cold.

 

Madison Avenue has arrived in China and with it an ambivalence as it rejects its past and embraces a Western capitalistic future

Who are we, as the new Chinese? Can the old become part of the new?  The emotional toll of a "century of humiliation" at the hands of the "Ocean People"