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Yesterday I visited Dafen for the first time in over a year. Noticed several tourists, better coffee shops, and a store selling Tibetan clothing. It seems that Dafen’s makeover from site of copy… more →
Shenzhen Noted
return to dafen
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wrote 1 month ago: Yesterday I visited Dafen for the first time in over a year. Noticed several tourists, better coffee … more →
foxconn + walmart = shenzhen, or globalization after mao
wrote 8 months ago: China Labor Watch has reported another Foxconn strike, this time at the Zhengzhou campus. According … more →
Dafen - Oil Painting Village
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wrote 9 months ago: Dafen is a small village whose purpose is to mass produce fake, copied oil paintings with very cheap … more →
IP Tourism: Part II
wrote 9 months ago: As summer comes to an end with the Labor Weekend in the US, we round out our IP Tourism with the res … more →
Field Report: Dafen Village (China) Part 2 Looking for original artworks in a village of fakes
wrote 11 months ago: Mass Produced Artwork on display in Dafen Foreword: And so I found myself on a train bound for Dafen … more →
Field Report: Dafen Village (China) Part 1 The Production Line Revolution
wrote 11 months ago: Information about Dafen Finished art copies on display near a grocery store in Dafen Shenzhen is wel … more →
Rockstar Photographers: Haibo Yu & The Chinese Painting Factories
wrote 11 months ago: Photographer Haibo Yu is one of the most prominent documentary photographers in contemporary China. … more →
Dafen Oil Painting Paradise to the World
wrote 1 year ago: Dafen Oil Painting Village If you are not too serious an art collector, but would like to pride your … more →
Dafen Oil Painting Village, Shenzhen, China
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How should we judge the success of Shenzhen's cultural industry?
wrote 1 year ago: According to released statistics, in 2011, Shenzhen’s cultural industry accounted for 8% of th … more →
临摹：When is a copy not a copy?
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wrote 1 year ago: This November, I was an assistant for the OCAT international art residency program, through which I … more →
what is cultural industry?
wrote 1 year ago: Friend Jonathan Bach is in Shenzhen, researching questions around cultural / creative industry in th … more →
4 months later...
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wrote 1 year ago: Last week I flew into Hong Kong. Never take a 16 hour flight/always take a 16 hour flight. Reason: G … more →
the Family who Adopted me.
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wrote 2 years ago: There I was sitting in my artist’s studio watching my friends get inscriptions with a needle w … more →
原创－the sz cultural industries fair
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wrote 2 years ago: The Seventh Shenzhen Cultural Industries Fair (文博会) opened three days ago. Of note is the ongoing in … more →
The Great Factory
wrote 2 years ago: March 2 I took a rare solo excursion to Macau to attend a workshop organized by the Macau-Ricci Inst … more →
Planned obsolescence? The Dafen Lisa and Shenzhen Identity
wrote 2 years ago: 507 artists worked on the Dafen Lisa for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. However, as the City beautif … more →
China...my journey to Xingping
wrote 2 years ago: My arrival in Shanghai on Jan 2nd 2003 was not without drama, but easily dealt with & was all pa … more →
Dyfed Steels death investigation handed onto HSE
wrote 2 years ago: The investigation into a death at a west Wales steel company has ben passed onto the HSE with no cri … more →
