From guns to easels

By You Nuo (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-07-28 16:46

In China, although some pompous officials in cities can boast to visitors of the shiny office buildings they have constructed and the massive (and often empty and wasteful) new investment zones; all claiming to having turned their cities into modern-day financial centers in only a few years, it is virtually only Beijing and Shanghai which have been able to nurture unique, vibrant areas for artists and other creative professionals.

But as is vividly shown with Beijing 798, for any city the essential difference between a market economy and a planned economy is not how the buildings look, or how much money they may contain, but instead it is the ideas within.

 

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