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Journey of Hope and Prosperity

by | Sep 12, 2009 | Art, Guns and Culture

Mian Situ’s record-breaking paintings transform our understanding of Chinese emigrants in America.
Imagine a China without oil paintings, and you would be recalling the days before the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, when Mao Zedong proclaimed victory by the Communist Party. No longer revering the country’s traditional ink art form, China’s new government sent young painters to study in the Sovie


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