The article by Yue Zhang, states “that contemporary Chinese artist have long been marginalized in China as their ideas conflict with mainstream political ideology.” I  would 100% agree that this is true I got a really good glimpse/ understanding of this in the Ai Weiwei Documentary. It was mentioned in the end of this article, but It was extremely interesting how they stated that Ai Weiwei was an exception to most artists these days because he was not only an artist but an political activist as well, so the government finds it safer  to just imprison him because they cannot control him. It seems that no matter what the CCP always finds a way to take control of every situation that could turn into a revolution in China. Like how did  the government/ CCP manage to turn the supposed to be underground art villages into officially recognized Art Villages. By districting the art they were able to control it. Yes, in comparison to the Soviets the Chinese had more freedom, however, they still lack a lot of freedom that they would have in a non-communist country. It seems like the government  having complete controll over the Factory and Songzhuang takes away from the fascination of the art villages a lot. Especially considering  the government has control of everything that is displayed in these towns. I feel that if i was an artist I would not want to live in these towns fro the jacked up prices and extreme monitoring of my art work. It was interesting that   the “one team, two titles” came up again in this article because it just proves that anything the CCP/government is not supposed to be involved with they always end up the leader of it, by a member of the CCP running the outside organization. By creating an art school and making artist teachers they too then became controlled by the CCP, they stopped making politically aimed work and their  styles changed. The one positive thing for them was they became famous and gained recognition in a way they never would be able to in China otherwise. This brings up the interesting question of globalizations effect on the Art Industry in China and I think the answer is pretty simple. Globalization has allowed Chinese artists to become known internationally, however in China it is still veery hard to be recognized. All in all, artwork is less of a threat to communism today then it was before, but this could be because the government can highly monitor the art industry.

In education the government/CCP is asking the same questions as with art, how can you prevent this potentially very dangerous group from revolting. In this article it is stated that University students are said to be the “‘repositories of the ideals of their nation’ and college campuses are said to be ‘the central stage for the drama of democracy’s ebb and flow'” Essentially what I get from this is college student pose the biggest threat to the CCP and I think this can be seen as true with how Mao tries to take the CCP the college campuses to get students mobilizing is campaign and able to report back to the CCP before there is any kind of uprising. Post Deng-era the control has become very de-politicized, bureaucratic and pragmatic. They uses materialistic things as incentives of cooperation, for example, a career, if you want a good career in the future it would be advised you follow and aid in the following of the rules and regulations set out by the CCP. The top goal for the CCP in the 21st century is to craft and maintain stability. This sounds bad, but I am hoping for the exact opposite, I hope the students are looking to make changes and are tired of their government. I think that all of the outcomes for the political cynicism in universities is possible. I hope the party-sate does lose a legitimacy and I hope the Chinese do start using alternate methods to protest the government. the only thing I do not think would be beneficial would be for the eruption in a devastating matter seems like that could result in a civil war of some sort.