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I am starting this blog mainly to share my views and opinions on what I observed, read and hear about the part of the world I live in… Asia. For this first post, I wanted to expose my views about the social and cutlural diversity of young chinese generations.

When a foreigner who never came to China thinks about it, he sees a big country with a lot of chinese people who managed under a communist governement to becaume one the most powerfull economical progress ever seen. But lot is forgotten with this simple vision of China,

country who managed to unify such a cultural, ethnic and now social disparity to push away concepts and logics that stays still in our western minds.

One of the first reason I enjoy living in china so much, is that, in the major cities, you will encounter such a variety of people that you will never get bored of incredible stories. Among Chinese mainlanders, many races are found. As the han (汉） is the mane race, we should not forget that the country is full of other races as the Manchu (欺人，northern china) , the Hui (回，muslim chinese, the tibet, the Uighurs(维吾尔族, western china) and other multiple minority from the south. This ethnical diversity is due to the history of China where instead of fighting an ethnic group in particular, the Han tended to absorb their ethnical opponent by invading their regions with starting new han families mixed with their local opponents. This exactly what is happening in modern tibet where in Lhassa, the Han community is growing more stronger than the local tibetan.
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here is my first post taken from the old version of the website to srat up with some 07 news

I have spent a few weeks in china making some research about futur sourcing market opportunities for the company I am working for ” universal sodexho “.

Being back living in china for those weeks has been wonderfull. There is something I love about the energy of huge cities like shanghai. Even if the cold was freezing me everytime I had to go out from my appartement, I was still amazed, from the 22 floor of my room to see all those uge buildings with small lights and thinking how dense the life was here.

During my stay in Shanghai, i also had the pleasure to meet some very interesting people.

Panzi was one of them. This artist from yunnan province is probably in his mid thirties. He is living in one of the mogashan lu loft who are reserves for artists like him. The art is creating is representing the impact of foreign luxury brand on a low class of chinese and the clash that is created because of it. One of my favourite painting is an autoportrait representing his face with a luis vuton security helmet….

panzi in his loft

shanghai roof tops

grace (photo from the web)

Panzi is very decontracted person who talked to us about the new generation of young chinese artists who are just aiming at money doing some pop art representation of cultural revolution painting aimed for the curious foreigners. He also told us about the 80’s, years of discovery in China, where modern art and music made their slow way to this uge country of tradition… it was very interesting time to spend with him…

most of my time after that was divided between business lunch and factory visits in fujian and guangdong province. I was happily surprised by the beauty of Xiamen where you can walk on a small island between hills traditional houses, temples and the beach…

at the end of my stay, i met a few friends in hong kong. hong kong is very different from other chinese city… it s more elaborate in the relation between foreign and chinse citizen. I like this feeling that everybody is equal, everybody is earning same salary and everybody is able to communicate with the same language. I would add that in fact, chinese must have a feeling of superiority since this old colony is no more english and the main language is now cantonese and very rare are the foreign citizen who are able to communicate in a correct cantonese.

I met my new friend grace there. Grace is a model that I met through my friend micheal the last time I came party in HK… she is welcomed in all the most vips places in town, which is really fun ! She is been modeling for the last 4 years but she is now more concentrating on a production company that is getting some contract to organize events around fashion. This is highly of interest to me since I would like to get more and more info about his world of event organisation where I feel I would satisfy my career in the future.