Yangjiang, China (CNN) -- In terms of underground Chinese art, Ai Weiwei may be grabbing the headlines but he is just one artist in an expanding galaxy of edgy and sometimes provocative work that has been coming out of China's contemporary art scene for more than a decade. 

There's Ou Zhihang, better known as "Naked Push-up Brother," a performance artist who disrobes at the scenes of newsworthy scandals and catastrophes and pumps out a series of press-ups. 

There are the Gao Brothers, whose sculpture of a firing squad of Mao Zedong clones taking aim at a figure of Jesus put them on the wrong side of China's increasingly skittish and jumpy authorities. 

And in southern China's Yangjiang -- an unprepossessing industrial city famous for producing one in 10 of the knives and scissors found in American homes -- there's the Yangjiang Group; a trio of seasoned drinkers whose work, while not overtly political, attacks one of the Chinese culture's sacred traditions -- calligraphy. 

"When I was at school, my teacher used to tell me how bad my handwriting was," says Zheng Guogu, an artist in his own right outside the group, but who has worked with the other two -- Chen Zaiyan and Sun Qinglin -- for 10 years. "But then I thought, who is he to tell me that my calligraphy is bad?" 

China works hard to project soft power 

In China, writing is considered an artform and is so important to the meaning of the words that the lyrical power of a poem, for instance, is carried through the style of the handwriting. 
Who was told they didn't have good penmanship?
Who said it?
Has he done things with anyone else?
Who?
For how long?
Who are the siblings that do things together?
What did they make?
Of what?
What sort of reward this the government give them for it?
What kind of people are these folks?
Who is getting the most news?
How many years has this stuff been releasing?
What is the naked performer's name?
Does he have a nickname?
Which is?
What kind of strength does the country try to show?
What form is considered special there?
What place creates 10 percent of US cutting devices?
How many people are in the club that fights penmanship?
Do they do it through politics?
What news publication is the report from?
Zheng Guogu
my teacher used to tell me how bad my handwriting was," says Zheng Guogu
His teacher
my teacher used to tell me how bad my handwriting was
Yes
but who has worked with the other two
Chen Zaiyan and Sun Qinglin
but who has worked with the other two -- Chen Zaiyan and Sun Qinglin
10 years
for 10 years.
the Gao Brothers
the Gao Brothers
a sculpture
whose sculpture
a firing squad of Mao Zedong clones taking aim at a figure of Jesus
sculpture of a firing squad of Mao Zedong clones taking aim at a figure of Jesus
None
put them on the wrong side of China's increasingly skittish and jumpy authorities
underground Chinese artists
In terms of underground Chinese art
Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei may be grabbing the headlines
ten
has been coming out of China's contemporary art scene for more than a decade
Ou Zhihang
There's Ou Zhihang, better known as "Naked Push-up Brother," a performance artist who disrobes at the scenes
Yes
better known as "Naked Push-up Brother,
Naked Push-up Brother
Naked Push-up Brother
soft power
China works hard to project soft power 

writing
In China, writing is considered an artform 
Yangjiang
southern China's Yangjiang -- an unprepossessing industrial city famous for producing one in 10 of the knives and scissors found in American homes
Three
a trio of seasoned drinkers whose work, while not overtly political, attacks one of the Chinese culture's sacred traditions -- calligraphy.
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while not overtly political
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