Is Chinese art kicking butt ... or kissing it?

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Is Chinese art kicking butt ... or kissing it?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1346573,00.html

Collectors are queueing up to buy work by China's bright young
artists. But while the scene is certainly buzzing, some worry that the
domestic art world is selling out to the west, says Charlotte Higgins

Tuesday November 9, 2004
The Guardian

At 50 Moganshan Street in Shanghai is a clump of dusty warehouses and
small-scale factories, hedged around by a tall, encroaching thicket of
tower blocks. Inside the compound can be glimpsed the busy activity of
small-scale industry. A door lies ajar to reveal a dingy shoebox of a
room, closely packed with bunk beds to accommodate migrant workers.

Charlotte Higgins
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China
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