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Buddhism. These three belief systems, all emphasise on the importance of nature which is to pursuit ‘harmony between Man and Nature and the harmony among people, building up a harmonious society and achieving harmonious development,’ (Fu, 2008:20) as a result, the Chinese have many thoughts on the power of nature, making landscape paintings one of the highest form of Chinese art. At the ceremony, an ink wash painting was shown, not only was it the best painting, but it was there to highlight the point Russell made, the Chinese are exquisite in art.

Although the Chinese are exquisite in art, the freedom of expressions in China has ‘always been under, a personal sort of government, the rule of the gentleman.’ (Lin, 2010:51) In 1942, Mao insisted to deliver his famous ‘Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art’, ‘in which he identified the goal and function of act as the propagation of Marxist-Leninist ideology in order to serve the interests of the proletariat.’ (Lu, 2004:99) He believed that all literature and art should be revolutionary, that is, all artistic work must show an interest of the Chinese revolution, for example, a painting that blackens the enemy. All artistic work should also be national as Mao claimed ‘we oppose both the tendency to produce works of art with a wrong political viewpoint…’ (Lu, 2004:99) and serve the mass, that is, to draw in direct and simple formulas. The art work standard dramatically decreased as they were linked to the political state rather than creativity. The Communists were unable to shake off the influence of Mao’s Talks until the end of the 1980s. Although the freedom of expression today is much greater than in the time of Mao, artistic work is still under the government control. Recent examples of government control include Ai Weiwei, a Chinese contemporary artist, who was arrested for being openly critical of China’s human rights. This again, demonstrates the reality that, the Chinese are ‘not free’. According to Tim Hancock, Amnesty’s UK campaigns director, ‘The Olympic values have been betrayed by the Chinese government…They must release all imprisoned peaceful activists, allow foreign and national journalists to report freely and make further progress towards the elimination of the death penalty – or risk permanently sullying the legacy of the Olympics.’ (The Telegraph, July 2008) China wanted to present itself as an open and stable nation, and having everything under control is not the way to pursue it. Feasibly, Russell was right that, the Chinese are exquisite in art, but with the government control, the Chinese will only be able to express their creativeness to a certain extent.

After the introduction of paper and ink wash painting, the LED scroll was moved aside. Three thousand men dressed in Zhou-era clothing with bamboo slips in their hands walked into the stadium representing the ‘Disciples of Confucius’. The Chinese believe that Confucius had three thousand students, but only seventy-two of them had mastered what he taught. Confucius’ teachings were recorded and passed on to many generations of disciples. The most famous books Confucius wrote are known as the ‘Four Books’, they are, ‘The Analects, The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, and The Book of Mencius.’[8] (Zhou, 2005:iii) At the cer本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。