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The dark historical context surrounding Chinese President Xi’s arts speech

By Jack Hu. A year after China’s President Xi Jinping delivered a speech on the role of the arts during a symposium in Beijing attended by leading artists and propaganda officials, state-run media outlet Xinhua published the full text on October 14, 2015. There was no explanation offered for why the transcript of Xi’s speech, which called on artists to […]