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Title
Luo Xu and friend at celebration of Chinese contemporary culture
Creator
Spencer, Norman A
Date Created and/or Issued
2015-09
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
Collection
Norman Spencer Photographs
Rights Information
Under copyright
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Rights Holder and Contact
Spencer, Norman A.
Description
This photograph of Luo Xu, artist and architect and friend was taken at a three day and night unofficial Chinese culture celebration in a wine district a few hours away from Kunming in Yunnan Province which Chinese from all over China attended. Professional and local musicians, dancers and singers performed, people drank alcohol, smoked Cuban cigars and discreetly “joints” and danced together around bond fires. It was organized with local government's permission by Lu Xu, Chinese artist and free lance architect. The Brazilian carnival like atmosphere was a reminder that many parts of Yunnan Provence function as liberated zones where Chinese can spontaneously express themselves freely in ways they would not be able to in other regions of China where there is more social conformity and government surveillance.
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb1098367p
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Architects
Young women
Artists
Mile Shi (Yunnan Sheng, China)
Luo, Xu, 1965-
Dali
Art/Music/Dance
Place
Mile Shi (Yunnan Sheng, China)

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