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Week 5

I like the concept of Xu Bing, the self-invented Chinese characters can really confused the audience who can not read Chinese characters. However, I think that it is not so great to the people who actually know Chinese characters.

Some of the characters in the work are actually English word which are transformed to "Chinese characters". But I think Chinese characters is more than that. This type of transformation eliminated many special properties of Chinese characters, which is also interesting and can be challenged by creating new characters.