{"id":12844,"date":"2007-05-23T14:39:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T21:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/05\/23\/the-next-cultural-revolution-aric-chen\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T14:39:56","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T21:39:56","slug":"the-next-cultural-revolution-aric-chen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/05\/the-next-cultural-revolution-aric-chen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Cultural Revolution &#8211; Aric Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFrom Fast Company Magazine:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/features_revolution3.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/features_revolution3.jpg','popup','width=335,height=150,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/features_revolution3-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"223\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Features Revolution3\" \/><\/a>China is not content to serve as factory to the globe. Call it economic foresight, or cultural pride, but despite the stratospheric growth of its economy&#8211;10.7% last year&#8211;China knows that cheap labor alone can&#8217;t sustain the boom. While a flurry of activity (and, yes, a government five-year plan) has stressed scientific and technological innovation, look a little closer and you&#8217;ll see that creativity in art and industry&#8211;in design, fashion, media, and the like&#8211;is fast becoming a driving national mission.<\/p>\n<p>Look past the behemoth Three Gorges Dam, past a highway system that will be larger than America&#8217;s by 2020, and China is building a creative infrastructure, too, at breakneck speed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/magazine\/116\/features-the-next-cultural-revolution.html\" target=\"_blank\">[Full text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n&#8211; See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/slideshow\/slideviewer.cgi?list=china&refresh=15\" target=\"_blank\">a slideshow<\/a> that accompanies the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fast Company Magazine: China is not content to serve as factory to the globe. Call it economic foresight, or cultural pride, but despite the stratospheric growth of its economy&#8211;10.7% last year&#8211;China knows that cheap labor alone can&#8217;t sustain the boom. While a flurry of activity (and, yes, a government five-year plan) has stressed scientific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[1395,2440,3437],"class_list":["post-12844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-sci-tech","tag-art","tag-design","tag-innovation","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Next Cultural Revolution - Aric Chen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/05\/the-next-cultural-revolution-aric-chen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Next Cultural Revolution - Aric Chen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Fast Company Magazine: China is not content to serve as factory to the globe. 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