Shock versus tradition

In China, the tradition of copying reflects more than a simple reverence for the past; it is an appreciation that beauty has been captured in a fashion worth emulating. Unlike the West, where “the shock of the new” is admired, China values tradition, and its best-selling works often pay homage to, and look like, those made hundreds of years earlier. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/china-art-fraud/ (accessed 31.10.13)