Xi Has Had Enough of 'Weird' Architecture -- And So Have I

"Fine art works should be like sunshine from a blue sky and breeze in the spring that will inspire minds, warm hearts, cultivate taste and clean up undesirable work styles." - Xi Jinping, October 14, 2014 It is easy enough to see the importance China's President Xi Jinping attaches to art as a means to extend power in society and for bettering the world. But will what he is proposing take China backward to straight-jacketed political correctness or forward to the authentic creation of culture? W...