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Article: China watchers have hopes for modern dance. (problems created by government cultural policy)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- August 1, 1994
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BEIJING--Almost everyone in China will tell you that the country's political system must change. From business to the arts individuals are tugging at the seams of communism. Most people feel that the Chinese government has moved neither fast enough nor far enough in expropriating successful foreign ideas. And China's artists are still recovering from the Cultural Revolution, from 1967 to 1977, when almost an entire generation of artists was annihilated for political reasons.
Today an inflexible and far-reaching political system maintains dancers onstage long past their prime, while lack of funding inhibits cultural exchange programs, and a deficiency of ...