The story is told of how, a few years back, the editor of a Shanghainese newspaper celebrated a new semiconductor factory in the city as the biggest in China.

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He introduced a new group of artists like Zhou Tiehai and Ding Yi, who possess the unique temperament of Shanghainese artists: sensitive, radical, illusionary, subtle.

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