I think this is aesthetically speaking one of the best images of the Xi years. Captures perfectly the contrast between quite mundane managerial capitalism and the bombastic revolutionary tradition it is forced to express itself through
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tbh as long as they keep trying to bridge the 1990s "governing party" look with the overt neomaoist visuals of Xi's focus on historical legitimacy weird juxtapositions are gonna keep happening
@nise_yoshimi can you elaborate on what in the image speaks to this contrast?
@nise_yoshimi Born to be a technocrat, forced to be a revolutionary