The same cannot, however, be said of the illustrations, which lean heavily on pop culture and advertising imagery from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and have a late-20th-century art director's fingerprints all over them.

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And, as in other parts of the world, certain aspects of hip-hop culture have made their way onto Chinese billboards and pop charts, as well as into Chinese theme songs and television advertising.

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