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Florian Maganza's avatar

Such a good issue! I love your reframe of imitation as generative as opposed to being extractive which is often how we see it. Misattribution of quotes is one of my biggest pet peeves but that story about the forging of Confucius quotes really sat me down.

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Vicky Zhao's avatar

Thank you Florian! I had fun writing this one 🙃 speaking of quote misattribution, I found this website fact checking quote attributions while looking into Confucius: https://quoteinvestigator.com/

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Florian Maganza's avatar

QI is my bible ♥

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Maymie Chan's avatar

This is fascinating... $600M?!?! I'm thoroughly enjoying your intersectional Chinese culture lessons!

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Vicky Zhao's avatar

Secondary markets are not to be underestimated haha it’s insane to think 8000 people can pump out that many hand painted art.. who said you can’t scale handmade goods 😅

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