While wandering through urban China I got the impression something is missing. But what is it? Everything is here: shopping malls, traffic-jams, tourist features, roadside billboards, etc. except - scribblings on walls.

There might be no distinctive street culture like in Berlin or New York, however, the nearly complete absence of graffiti, stickers, stencils and scribbling is astonishing. Few graffiti spots are usually either in art districts like the Factory 798 in Beijing and Moganshan Road in Shanghai or places out of the public domain (see a video about Chinese graffiti on youTube). Probably not surprising in a country where it is virtually impossible to express oneself freely in the media.

So it is all the more surprising that these ironic cartoon-stickers of the of the Beijing "fuwa" mascots could have been produced - especially immediately prior the 2008 Olympics. But do you dare to attach them in the Chinese public realm?