After the cultural revolution, the Chinese people yearned some form of freedom, a kind of narrative which should in many ways to the drift suppressed feelings what culture suffered under Mao. It was a missed blessing and we always try now really capture and understand the consequences.
This last week, a new national museum was opened in Beijing, which, in many respects, can illustrate this current and complex scenario.
First of all, the Conservatives are German, in the opening of the Chinese National Museum, which sends a clear message of their own insecurities. The building is 11 years old and often interrupted as the party could not accept what path to take. The exhibition is a mixture of Chinese recreation of the history and the glory of the party while adoration Western ways with the title "the feast of European enlightenment". It's dichotomy is now deep in the zeitgeist Chinese modern.
They are uncertain which way to go. The explanation resides perhaps in precisely the absence of any cultural value that was left after Mao. Can agreement or disagreement with its cultural stands, but no one can deny that he had a clear vision. Mao the Leader, the sun shines on Mao's China. This succeeded after which can hardly be expressed in a single line or perhaps may be better described as many have already expressed, a lie, a fairy tale of cement, glass and steel.
The Germans share with Chinese similar values; the cult of the order and power. It is a mixture of problematic and dangerous, history has shown results tell when people are subjected to these ideals. The Museum is located far from the people, and they will also close contact of art presented.
The new Museum also reflects an another Sino - German passion for massive structures celebrating the conquest of power. Museum architects, also Germans, have made comments relate to how the main plan; that Museum was built as the greatest as far as size; not the cultural or artistic value.
The National Museum is in many ways can better represent the current Chinese modern culture; a vast space empty, meticulously kept, lavishly built for the rare which is likely to remain empty, most of the time, except for selected towers or foreign visitors can come and admire the new Chinese wealth. The Interior of the object of the most famous is described as "precious treasures" famous cowboy Deng's Hat used in a Rodeo during a visit to the United States. Outside, one may attend the presence so far never reach and worrying with clinically selected Army soldiers walking outside the Museum of the choreography designed German for view of the military order and power, now manufactured in China.
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