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Olympic sports wear for Beijing, 2008.
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| It's all about selling clothes!
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| Cui Xiuwen in her studio in Beijing next to a print that is part of a triptych titled “Angel No. 9,” from 2006.
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Cui Xiuwen has produced photographs and paintings of adolescent girls dressed in uniforms of the Young Pioneers, a youth organization in China. Sometimes bruised and bloodied, the girls pose in what looks like the Forbidden City.
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| Li Shurui at her studio in Beijing; the work is untitled.
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| It may say something about Ms. Li's present and future thinking, though, that when asked to name a cultural role model, she pointed neither to other artists nor to contemporary politics, but to the deep past: to the seventh-century ruler Wu Zetian, who through a combination of brains, beauty, unsparing ambition and tenacious hard work, became China’s first and only female empress.
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Lin Tianmiao in her studio in Songzhuang Village, east of Beijing.
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| If any woman qualifies as a power-artist on the current male model, Lin Tianmiao probably comes closest. She was born in 1961, and like many artists of her generation who were raised during the Cultural Revolution but came of age professionally in its rocky aftermath, she had a difficult start. In the mid-1990s, her work was made from used household utensils that she laboriously wrapped in layers of cheap white cotton thread to create inventories of domestic life that looked both threatening and precious.
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| With the market boom, Ms. Lin's career took off, and her work grew in scale and formal polish. Her floor-to-ceiling installations of self-portrait photographs anchored by braids of white yarn are fixtures in international shows. With a small staff of seamstresses, she now produces ghostly — and expensive-looking — soft sculptures swelling with egg and breast-shaped forms in pristine white silk.
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