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...The author, Wei Xu, recently left Facebook for a Beijing-based start-up. Some, however, are more cautious....
...Others are not so lucky: Yue Xin, a Peking University graduate and activist who publicly questioned her university’s handling of a #MeToo case, has been missing since her arrest in August....
...It is being billed as the great unseen exhibition, showcasing a generation of artists — including Geng Jianyi, Yang Fudong, Liu Wei, Hu Jieming, Xu Zhen, Liang Yue, Chen Xiaoyun, Yang Zhenzhong and Xiang...
...“It’s still very cumbersome,” says Ken Xu of Gobi Partners, a venture capital firm in Shanghai that is looking to invest in the sector. “You still have to handle the exchange into USD yourself.”...
...Yue Yuen executives did not respond to a request for comment....
...She had also found time to buy some art, scooping up two works by the British-Hungarian artist Sam Havadtoy as well as one by Xu Qu....
...Yue Minjun’s miniature “Founding Ceremony” (1997), based on a famous 1953 oil painting by Dong Xiwen, evacuates all the officials from the rostrum of Tiananmen, leaving only four microphones....
...Moment by moment, the music was pleasant; it also had a fine vocal facility, highlighting character contrasts and consistently placing soprano Xu Xiaoying’s Xi Shi, tenor Wei Song’s King of Yue and baritone...
...“This is ‘Democracy Leading the People’ by Yue Minjun – a parody of Eugène Delacroix’s ‘Liberty Leading the People’....
...Yue Minjun is now the best-known of these, though Fang Lijun’s work may soon breach $1m....
...Provocatively blank, Fang’s yawn, Yue’s smile and Xu’s empty page announce the intellectual liberation that is pushing young Chinese artists to break political, cultural and aesthetic boundaries, “a self-ironic...
...For Dai Yue, an 18-year-old high-school graduate preparing for university, her twice-weekly sessions at the Holiday karaoke bar in Shanghai are indispensable: a time to meet friends, eat snacks and belt...
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