Combine all of that with a counterdiaspora and reverse brain drain of talent, and the overall result is a kind of primordial soup thick with the building blocks of creative enterprise. Emerging from it is an army–small, but growing–that’s working to reinvent how China thinks and works.

I love these sort of articles that pose as journalism. It’s so positive. It’s so friendly. Unfortunately…the reality, as I have seen it, is that China is nowhere near becoming a “creative leader.” 40+ years of communist orthodoxy combined with the long, long tradition of “follow the leader” and the result (even in art and music) goes against the bubbly outlook portrayed in the article. My experience has been that creativity is shunned by parents, teachers, bosses and society in general in China and, more to the point, that those creative types have had little grip in influencing the mainstream. I’m not saying that they don not exist…I only write to say that they are few and the trend is not acclerating.

The Next Cultural Revolution-Chinese Creative Class