Alai on artistic quality
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/usa/life/2012-03/20/content_14872168.htm
Author and NPC deputy calls for spirituality - by Liu Lu (China Daily, 20 March 2012)
MCLC LIST / From: kirk (denton.2@osu.edu) / Subject: Alai on artistic quality

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"The development of the cultural industry cannot simply follow the development routes of other industries and be solely profit-oriented."(Alai, in the China Daily article)
Cultural "industry"? And he is going to lecture us on "spiritual and artistic value" of literature?
I saw him speak at the 2011 HK Book Fair. He looked positively listless, another burnt out author busier doing PR for the official Writers Association than writing. . .
Bruce Humes, April 3, 2012, 11:38p.m.