Stefanie Schweiger : 9783954761371 : 19 Dec 2016 : Between Tradition and Subculture ?Eight Artists in ChinaEight artists in Beijing. A photographer from Berlin. A closeup view of how artists live in China. In a country ruled by a virtually perfect totalitarian system, artists have an especially seminal role to play. Most forsake material prosperity and security in pursuit of their artistic passion; many take an ambivalent view of the vision of beauty enshrined by traditional Chinese art. Poverty and the fear of political repression often closely circumscribe the ambit of their work. Yet these eight have managed to stake out spaces in which they hatch individual creative projects between subjective and subcultural ideals, Chinese traditions, and their country's contemporary turbocapitalist development. The photographer Stefanie Schweiger has lived in Beijing since 2012. After creating numerous reportages for Die Zeit, ZeitMagazin, and other international media, she launched her own proj