Will China Soon be the Center of the World

The 21st century belongs to a constellation of China and India and my deepest feeling is that Britain shows no sign of understanding this, says the departing director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philip Dodd, in an interesting article in the Financial Times. He argues that, in at least art and culture, China is like is like America in the 19th century - although the Chinese may not like that analogy. Mainland China is inventing a new middle class which is becoming encultured in a new kind of way. There is an extraordinary experiment on the level of education, architecture, museums and independent spaces.

July 26th, 2004 by Jeff |

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July 26th, 2004 by Jeff | Filed under Uncategorized