"I have a wager that the 21st century belongs to a constellation of China and India"
Published August 02, 2004
Philip Dodd, departing director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, quoted in The Financial Times on July 26, 2004.
Why is he resigning his prestigious position?
To start a consultancy called Made in China.
Its first project?
An educational collaboration with the Chinese billionaire entrepeneur Li Ka-shing [isn't that just the most perfect name? I mean, "ka-ching!"] which aims to turn British hearts and minds towards the culturally dynamic cities of Beijing and Shanghai.
So this guy's putting his career where his mouth is.
Dodd says, "China is like America in the 19th century. Mainland China is inventing a new middle class which is becoming encultured in a new kind of way. There is an extraordinary experiment on the level of education, architecture, museums, and independent spaces."
Guess I'm not the only one who looks at this as the Chinese/Indian century.
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I predict that this will be the century when Atlantis again rises from the sea to claim its rightful place atop mankind
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It won't be a Chinese/Indian century, but rather an altogether Asian one.