Photo of Cao Fei
Photo of Cao Fei

Cao Fei

“There was only the Forbidden City – but this is old China, the China of legend, the walled city where the emperors of the Qing Dynasty once lived. So I began to think it was necessary to represent contemporary China in some way – and not from an official, governmental position, but from an artist’s angle.”

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