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Frontline staff deserve more than praise from the government. They need it to do its job
Any connoisseur of socialist realist art would appreciate the National Museum of China’s new art exhibition, which hymns the battle against coronavirus with sculptures of masked medics mobilised in collective effort. The show is designed to “unite the people” and “spread positive energy”. This was to be expected: the Communist party has always preferred the heroic mould of histo