The search is on for the unique encapsulation, the stroke that conveys China, the Olympics and change all in one go. It's a journalistic race to capture the weird, uncanny Olympics' contribution to the making and falsifying of China, finding the right formula of heroism, change, dynamism and, in a sense, deceit.
London's the Observer, in an essay by Rachel Cooke, has made a pretty interesting stab in this direction through an interview with Ai Weiwei, the artist...
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