China’s Economy Is Crashing. What Might Save It? The Arts?

With some saying the era of “Cheap China” and “Dirty Manufacturing” is over, the central government is focusing on expanding creative culture, adding 4,000 museums, galleries and art centers in the past five years and creating multi-million-dollar tech incubators and “creative clusters.” The government is funding book fairs, film festivals and promotes artistic works by writers and artists of whom it approves.