The future of Chinese identity and culture
Wednesday 25 June 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Philip Dodd talks to some of the important figures in the contemporary Chinese cultural scene, including Ma Jian, author of Beijing Coma; Chelsia Lau, Hong Kong-born chief designer for Ford Motor Company; Zhou Yi, founder of China's leading industrial design consultancy and Jian Jun, editor of the magazine Urban China.
Philip asks them all about their hopes and fears for Chinese identity and culture in the face of modernisation and globalisation.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that the 21st Century is likely to be the century of China.a vast country with a vast population and a government that after years of hostility seems happy now to entertain Western consumerism if not Western ideology.
Philip Dodd talks to some of the writers, artists and designers shaping the new China what the country looks like from the inside. What are the forces that will define the country's features and does anyone under thirty give a fig for China's five thousand year history? To explore these and other questions and to share their insights Philip will be joined by the Chinese born academic, Red Chan, who teaches at Warwick University and by Jan Stuart of the British Museum.
