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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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