Cee’s Fun Foto: Pairs

Pair of children

Each week Cee of Cee’s Photography challenges bloggers with a fun prompt. This week we’re to find photos of pairs.

If you want to see more fun pair fotos, click here

Busy

Seen at the China National Art Museum in an exhibit of propaganda art.

Travel Theme: Decoration

Far East Hostel, Southwest Beijing

Each week Ailsa invites bloggers to post photos based on her travel theme. This week the theme is Decoration, a fun theme, I think. N’est pas? If you’d like to see more interpretations of Decoration, click here.

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Modern Folk Art

From 798 Art Space

China Dream #1

All over the city there are new “China Dream” posters using folk art and ancient images. They’re supporting Xi,  the new premier’s, “China Dream” campaign. This article in New York Books explains now the posters aim to get people to adopt the lifestyles of their ancestors.

Related articles

• Old Dreams for a New China (nybooks.com)
• China’s dream with a stripe of green – Janet Carmosky (chinaherald.net)
• “[T]he old posters touted Communist values, the new ones largely replace them with pre-Communist Chinese traditions…” (althouse.blogspot.com)
• The New Face Of Chinese Propaganda (dish.andrewsullivan.com)
• Xi Jinping’s “China Dream” is not a Confucian Dream (uselesstree.typepad.com)

A Gift

The Chinese National Museum holds hundreds of gifts given by various dignitaries. This instrument came from the Russian Foreign Minister.