Figures from the Ministry of Culture showed that as of April, less than 15 percent of space in cultural parks nationwide were allocated to resident artists. In the most extreme case — Huashan 1914 Creative Park in Taipei — artists took up only 0.64 percent of space. There have been wencuang parks, wencuang events, wencuang restaurants, a wencuang night market and even a wencuang cemetery. The wencuang parks are generally government-supervised — either directly or through ROT (rehabilitate-operate-transfer) partnerships with private companies — and designed to promote local culture and arts. One of the main reasons behind the consumerism of cultural parks is the dominance of the government in the articulation of urban spaces.

Source: The China Post August 14, 2017 09:11 UTC