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Despite the cool spring evening, a lot of people paid to walk the grounds of the city zoo to admire the installation of lighted figures and inflatables all along the paths connecting the zoo's permanent exhibit areas. Some parts were backed by recorded music to color the atmosphere with cheerful chords, too. But the intermittent roars of the tigers in their enclosure and the knowledge of Chinese genocide of their Uyghur citizens gave a darker meaning to the display.

See reflections from 5/2023, "Chinese soft power lantern festival" link.medium.com/sVWOsJIw7zb

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The first thing that visitors see when entering the city zoo perimeter for the ticketed and timed Chinese Lantern Festival is this tower of lighted figures of butterflies with flapping wings and surrounded by happy music. As the sloping path winds around and up the slope behind, the display of 8 rotating lanterns to express cultural icons of Chinese history comes into view. But when remembering the concentration camps since 2017 for ethnic minorities in the west part of China, Xinjiang province, detentions, tortures, home invasions, destruction of cultural treasures, and suppression of food, language, clothing, music and other channels of ethnic meaning, then this happy exhibit tastes bad indeed. Doubtless the www.campaignforuyghurs.org would not approve. Perhaps if the shoe were on the other foot and Uyghurs, somehow, were putting ethnic Chinese into concentration camps for quiet genocide on a total, national scale, then they exported Uyghur arts around the world, only then would people take notice.

See reflections from 5/2023, "Chinese soft power lantern festival" link.medium.com/sVWOsJIw7zb

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A part of the Fashion-and-Nature special exhibit at the Grand Rapids Public Museum, the cotton print dress of the early 1900s or late 1800s is juxtaposed with bolls of cotton on the stem, the background showing children and grown-ups pulling the cotton, and some textile machinery nearby.

It is interesting to imagine what a museum visitor of 1930 (when the last Civil War veterans were dying) or someone from 1870 would think of this presentation of finished dress in conjunction with the labor conditions supplying the material of which the dress is made. But then in 2022, until the past month or two, the USA law to ban Chinese cotton and products suspected of coming from forced labor camps in the dry far-west of the country in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), consumers were carelessly shopping for goods that a attractive without much thought of the carbon footprint to ship them across the ocean, or the hands of those working the fields.

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