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...Square). It's owned and run by the Hong Kong-born entrepreneur, Pearl Lam. Her aim is to celebrate the best in Chinese modern art while exploring its relationship with 5,000 years of the country's artistic tradition. You can see some of the hottest names there - Sun Liang, Yang Bo, Chen Yun, Shao Fan and Hu Youben among them. Classy, collectible stuff - if you're rich...
...tastes - and dollars - on locals. "The foreigners already have an idea of what they expect from Chinese art, and they are more interested in works that have obvious Chinese symbols," says Shanghai artist Ding Yi, whose Mondrian-inspired geometries hardly betray his nationality. "It's very seductive," acknowledges Li Liang, the owner of Eastlink Gallery in Shanghai. "You know that if you put things up that look Chinese, they will sell well." But others worry that this impulse will only encourage soulless facsimiles with little cultural resonance. Yue Minjun's laughing heads, for instance, have spawned dozens of smiling faces...
North Korea is already benefiting--a little. In 2005, the Chinese trading company Tianjin Digital invested $650,000 to open a joint-venture bicycle plant in Pyongyang. "The conditions are really favorable," says Tianjin manager Liang Tongjun, whose company was granted a 20-year monopoly on bicycle manufacturing in the North. A month after the factory opened, the Dear Leader himself paid a visit...
...Liang D. Jou, HOUSTON
...Unlike the simple, machine-made playthings on display at Beijing's overrated Panjiayuan Market, Liang's creatures are expertly fashioned, intricate designs that are very much one-of-a-kind. "It used to be only foreigners who were interested in buying these toys," the former tailor says. "But I've had many more Chinese customers in recent years, such as young couples who want to celebrate the birth of a child." In what is fast becoming another Beijing tradition, Liang's shop will soon be cleared to make way for a new development. But after that happens, he will remain...