Indeed, Asia’s relationship with the West has been traditionally schizophrenic and contradictory when it comes to self-image. Vietnamese children of mixed parentage born of American GIs during the war, for instance, were a permanent under class, and their conditions worsened after the war ended. Perceived as children of the enemy, they were often derided, chastised and beaten. But these days those mixed children’s features are coveted by many wealthy people in Saigon and Hanoi. They want their noses, eyes, lips, and would save a fortune to go under the knife to look like them.

jūtos, kā kad būtu laiks ceļojumam. rezervēju biļetes turp bez atpakaļ.

eh, ka vajadzēja toreiz noprecēt nežēlīgo karjeristu Arnaud de Belenet un spodrināt viņa tēlu. es taču esmu kā radīta mājas ballīšu un izbraukumu zaļumos plānošanai.

bet nu es vēl pagaidīšu kādus 3x5 gadus. un tad pastāstīšu visādus jokus par šo personību. kādas priekšvēlēšanu kampaņas laikā. [nu ne jau tā kā monika, bet tāpat prikolam].

At school in China during the Cultural Revolution Hu Ming was allowed to draw only Mao Zedong’s portrait. In 1970 she joined the army, where she worked in a hospital as a broadcaster and librarian. In the library she found a book of Michelangelo’s life drawings of human anatomy that was banned at the time as pornographic. Her website says that it changed her life forever; it also says that because women could not ‘display their femininity’ during the Cultural Revolution she ‘did not see shampoo until the mid 1980s, hence the womanliness of her army girls in her painting.’ She then trained as an army nurse, spending much time studying anatomy in the morgue.

"He Chengyao showed herself topless at a table in her Play chess with Duchamp, 2001."



Chen Lingyang graduated from art school in Beijing and ‘found herself in a period of withdrawal. "I had no job, little communication with my friends. I would stay at home inside all day long." In such circumstances she became extremely aware of the cyclical rhythms of each day, week, month, year. Each month she took a photograph her bleeding genitals in one of the 12 mirrors..