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culture - What is China's color?

I often blame academics that they keep their best findings secret for the rest of the world. Only minutes ago I received information about an oration Stefan Landsberger has held last Friday at the University of Amsterdam about "The color of China".
To late to pass by. I will translate some of the invitation (in Dutch so we do not bother non-Dutch speakers with his arguments) since others might find he way of arguing interesting too. Landsberger tries to capture China's development (as far as we can talk about one country in a cultural sense) in colors.
The choice is between red, orange and green. Red might be obvious, orange is the mixture of imperial yellow and communist red. Green is the mixture between red and the favorite color of the west: blue. In the end Landsberger picks the most boring color of all: brown, a mixture of yellow, red and blue.
In the end it will end up being white, he ends in a somber tone: the globalization will cause all color to disappear.
I'm not that pessimistic, but would have loved to hear his arguments and the discussion about it.
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