{"id":9159,"date":"2011-06-01T04:06:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T04:06:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-01T04:06:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T04:06:11","slug":"In-China-a-Search-for-the-True-Self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9159","title":{"rendered":"In China, a Search for the ‘True’ Self"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Central Conservatory of Music last week, dozens of artists spoke passionately about the struggle for creativity in China amid the cacophony of money-making, Communist Party politics and cultural traditions that discourage individuality. \u201cWhat is real music?\u201d asked Shaosheng Lee, a student of composition and piano, speaking at \u201cA Cross Boundary Forum on the New Music of China,\u201d a three-day event tied to the Beijing Modern Music Festival. \u201cIt\u2019s music that contains your way of thinking,\u201d he said. Then came the crucial proviso: \u201cYour true way of thinking.\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Liu Sola, a composer, cult novelist and a main organizer of the cross-disciplinary forum, said: \u201cWe are educated to serve the people, and the masses. So it can be hard to find your own self.\u201d \u201cBut today no one is forcing you to pursue the mainstream,\u201d she said. \u201cYou can explore your own space.\u201d Ma Licheng, a writer, said: \u201cThe biggest problem is that we need to discover our true selves, what is true and authentic, and not the false, the merely taught.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cFar too many people here have no personal opinions at all,\u201d he said. \u201cThey say what they are told to think.\u201d Other established artists advised members of the emerging generation to search for their \u201ctrue\u201d selves and not merely follow the formulas offered by the academies. They exhorted them to examine the fundamentals of life like sexuality and language and to rediscover China\u2019s own cultural legacy, which many feel has been neglected in the pursuit of Western standards.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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