EAST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Cyberculture, Work Unit, Contemporary Art
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2008 torch relay: more open china, some foreign reports found themselves harassed, china lead the world with the amount of journalist in prison, the torch would travel through the world and china. Harmonious society: harmony is a passive attribute with equity, but also the party won"t tolerate anything else. Question of tibet: tibet riot march 10 2008. Major issue: increase number of non tibet due to harmony. More han chinese are taking over the jobs and demographics. Inflation has been a big problem: anti-chinese sentiment and chinese backlash. Western media coverage and chinese nationalism: building beijing: the world"s most expensive games. 110 new hotels, expanded subway, international terminal. 1. 5 million were driven out of their homes to make way for the new venues and many of them were: the floating population china"s migrant labours given compensation. Left home to work in city, mostly male. Bad working conditions, but still earn more than back at home.