“Su Zhongqiu opens his laptop to show me some digital versions of his favorite modern Chinese art. He clicks on one link, and up pops a photo of the corpses of two human babies, propped together like store mannequins, on display at an exhibition in Beijing. I shy away from it, disgusted. He smiles. “See. You Westerners are too fragile, too delicate,†he castigates me. Su is an avant-garde artist who also teaches art at a university in Xi’an. Gifford, Rob. China Road (p. 115). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. ”
