As Shanghai Art Week and numerous other exhibitions open in China, one dealer claims cultural sensitivities and bureaucracy for exhibitors is becoming an increasing challenge. One Chinese "anonymous" employee of an international gallery said she sees similarities with the so-called brainwashing of the Cultural Revolution and that censorship has increased in this year under president Xi Jinping. Works which are too sexually suggestive, religious and political subjects, as well as anything which might be critical of the regime, could be rejected by customs and impounded.
As Shanghai Art Week and numerous other exhibitions open in China, one dealer claims cultural sensitivities and bureaucracy for exhibitors is becoming an increasing challenge. One Chinese "anonymous" employee of an international gallery said she sees similarities with the so-called brainwashing of the Cultural Revolution and that censorship has increased in the past five years under president Xi Jinping. Works which are too sexually suggestive, religious and political subjects, as well as anything which might be critical of the regime, could be rejected by customs and impounded.