Ilustrata din China
Postcard from China
Author(s): Eliot WeinbergerSubject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: Bei Dao; Sychuan; Mrgdava Museum; economic growth in China; national Chinese tourism; censorship in contemporary China; Beijing; rural versus urban in contemporary China; artists in contemporary China
Summary/Abstract: An international poetry festival is offering the author an opportunity to travel to contemporary China. The present text sums up a series of observations regarding several – social, economic, cultural, urban – aspects of the social life in the China of the 21st century. China is a unique place in the world, the author concludes, where the Pax Americana seems remote, a country towards which the United States has an impressive financial debt, and where the same United States of America look like the “Little Brother”.
Journal: Lettre Internationale - Ediţia română
- Issue Year: 2006
- Issue No: 57
- Page Range: 107-110
- Page Count: 4
- Language: Romanian
