The acts of KUSO have become increasingly controversial in China.

    The latest incident is the internet-posted photo of two young men who put their hands on breasts of the Twins’ waxy figures in Shanghai. The photo triggered an immediate uproar in the internet, inviting people to condemn the disgusting pose the two youngsters created. A year ago, another young man, Hu Ge, made an internet movie entitled "a bloody case out of a steamed bun (一个馒头引发的血案)” out of Chen Kaige (陈凯歌)’s 10 million yuan invested movie “Limitless”(无极). It also caused an immediate media battle about the legitimacy of the movie, getting people to seriously question what copy right meant for an internet era. Underlying both scenarios, however, is the question of what true creativity should stand for? 

    Academically, creativity is the ability or outcome of perceiving, processing or producing something newly or differently. Practically, creativity is simply to familiarize the unfamiliar and unfamiliarize the familiar.

    Alternatively, creativity is to take a new look at old things and to take an old look at new things. As such, creativity could be as simple as changing a different cloth everyday or as easy as repainting the same picture using a different color. That can be highly surprising!

    Thus conceived, the two men’s nasty pose is a perfect act of creativity----putting human hands on a waxy body. Yet all creativity could be either well-intended or ill-intended. The former is an act that generates healthy and favorable social feedback while the latter is one that generates the otherwise. Thus, the KUSO of two lovely girls as preys of sexual harassment is definitely ill-intended. Though the incident can never happen for real, the disturbing message is really reaching out, i.e., you could KUSO anything or anyone the way you want. That can be highly disgusting!

    Stanford psychologist, Albert Bandura, discovered more than 40 years ago that children could learn to do things that they observe. Touching a woman’s breast by a total stranger is morally and legally banned anywhere around the world, yet the web-posted photo is teaching people how to do it. What could young children learn from this? School teachers and parents would wonder. What is the bottom line for KUSO?

    Legislators and administrators would question.

    Taken together, what is true creativity? People all care.