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chinese creativity (a visit to china pt.3)

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In December and January, I spent over a month in China, across Shanghai, Jingdezhen (the ceramics capital), and Shenzhen (the manufacturing capital). I visited factories and studios, art museums and phone farms, and tiny stalls and bougie stores. I haven’t been in China since 2008, so everything was new and exciting to me. What follows is a condensed breakdown of all the observations I had (of which there are a lot because China just operates so differently compared to every other country I’ve been to). I’m splitting them up into 3 sections: physical culture, digital culture, and…

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