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		<title>&#8220;Ai Weiwei &#8216;Literally&#8217; Smashes China&#8217;s Traditions in Art and Architecture&#8221; &#8211; Really?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ai Weiwei, a contemporary Chinese artist, was widely reported to “literally” destroy China’s tradition in art in his 1995 act of dropping a Han Dynasty (206 BCE &#8211; 220 CE) urn and breaking it.  An article calls this performance “an iconoclastic act”. Ai was quoted as saying that this gesture is “powerful only because [...]]]></description>
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		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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This is something I wrote last year. I thought I&#8217;d share it.

The Art of Chinese Architecture: An Illustrated History (Yitao Xu, 2002) presents the development of the Chinese architectural system, as well as the social and technological conditions that have sustained Chinese architecture over the last 4,000 years. Among colorful illustrations of  both [...]]]></description>
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