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China 2008/2009



TITLE: SWEATSHOP
LOCATION: 安家大院, TIANJIN
MISSION: ENJOY SOME CHINESE MASS PRODUCTION
DATE: 2009-01-21

Right next to the An family residence was this small Chinese art shop. Cleverly enough, the management employs underpaid art students to produce endless amounts of more or less identical paintings. One of the huge 2m x 1m paintings carried a sticker price of 12500元, seems like someone at least is making decent money. One popular motif is naked boys hugging fish, which supposedly represents good fortune since cute kids are cute kids and fish used to be rare i mainland China. I consider myself a pretty open-minded person, but when one of the "boys" had a small beard (许嘉 claimed it wasn't a beard, but I know what I saw) things are getting too strange for me.

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"Obetalda var de säkert inte, men jag fick intrycket att de inte var de som håvade in mest pengar från den verksamheten. Inte ovanligt att studenter gör skitjobb. I december plockade 许嘉 varor i en affär i 9 timmar för 45元..."

Jöhean, 2009-01-21


"Men helt obetalda kan de väl inte ha varit?"

Lina, 2009-01-21

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