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An Hong works predominantly with photography. In the "Buddha" series, he calls into question the sudden sexual liberty of today's young urban generation within a society that has remained very puritanical throughout the last dynasties and during the Communist period. He features himself in a deliberately harsh variation on the classical Beijing Opera style face paint and taunts traditional icons by recreating them through his mocking vision. In "China Does Not Need A.I.D.S., China Needs Love", interwoven with a body, he imitates the attitude of the "Budda of Pleasure", an image that Is present in certain temples and for which the Taoists have a similar of the young woman draws out a smile. For An Hong, this is an indirect criticism of the "baby girls" of the new generation as well as these urbane liberated women, who very young, enjoy wide sexual experience.
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