From Danwei blog:
At the two-day Fourth Annual Forum on Chinese Cultural Industries held at Peking University earlier this week GAPP vice-director Liu Binjie spoke about the race toward the bottom in contemporary culture. According to the Beijing Daily Messenger:
“Recently, the curtain has been pulled back on sex in the arts world, cultural products have been promoted fraudulently, serious scholarly works have been parodied, and there has been continual sensationalism in the cultural domain. There is too much excess; culture seems too light and thin.”[Full Text]