Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
A dying man needs to die as a sleepy man needs to sleep and there comes a time when it is wrong as well as useless to resist.
Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.