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Beijing Babes |
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September 2009, Beijing |
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26.5 x 27.5 cm |
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Acrylic color, watercolor, pencil, color pencil, ballpoint pen and felt-tip pen on paper |
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The image is from a Chinese confectionery.

 A concubine is generally a woman in an ongoing, matrimonial-like relationships with a man, whom she cannot marry for any reason. The reason may be because she is of lower social rank than the man or because the man already has an official wife. Generally, only men of high economic and social status have concubines.

 Pink Ghetto refers to work in the job industry that is dominated by women. Known as pink-collar professions, the jobs include childcare, nursing, and secretarial and administrative work.

 China doll stereotype is a Western stereotype of the submissive subservient Asian woman.

 Yellow Fever is a slang term which refers to attraction for people of Asian descent by those of non-Asian descent.

 Private collection, Berlin. |
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Beijing, China, concubine |
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