Copying, culture and calligraphy: how modern China is forging a new creative identity

At Spikes Asia today two almost simultaneous talks aimed to uncover the new aesthetic of China and how it relates to traditions as old as a thousand years and stereotypes unduly given by the West.
Sapient executive creative director Raymond Chin invited artist and designer Zhenhan Hao to discuss the common view that China is a nation of copycats. While design agency Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR) took and East meets West approach to understand how modern China was developing a new aesthetic for its