In one of the more cringe-worthy headlines in recent memory, China.org.cn is reporting that the Beijing University of Technology required 12,000 applicants to sketch General Secretary Xi Jinping as part of their entrance exam for an arts program. (Cue "please not cultural revolution, please not cultural revolution" looping soundtrack.)
The university's admissions program gave up to "200 points" (it doesn't specify out of how many) for an exceedingly good portrait of Mr. Xi, and required students use only pencils or charcoal.
It also, we assume, required students to only paint cheery portraits of Xi Dada, not unlike the painfully bad Xi Jinping comics that were printed by state media last year.
China.org.cn being state media, it can't help but feature stories of students who could barely contain their excitement over the privilege of painting Xi Dada:
Yu Fang (pseudonym), told Beijing Evening News that as a fan of President Xi, she was excited to portray the State leader and she had to work hard to stop her hands from trembling.
Such a fan that she opted to hide her identity when asked about it. Wonderful.
So far there are no published images of these eager applicants' works (the image above is just from a devoted fan), but we eagerly await to see if any surface online.
Please, stick figures, please.
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