Mental illness and narratives of cultural 'sickness' have often been a theme in Chinese
history. Not so long ago, Lu Xun's madman reminded us that metaphors of cultural illness do …

In this essay I will argue that Chinese contemporary art since the 1980s has been
characterized by a collective outlook analogous to the psychological symptom of anxiety and …

Kuo Hsi (fl. ca. 1060-75), theoretician of landscape painting and himself a renowned
landscape painter, said, according to his son, that there are four kinds of landscape …

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This article explores the work of He Yunchang (Yunnan, 1967), an artist who brings together
lived and artistic experience to reflect on the conflicts of contemporary society. He makes …

Starvation, mass killing, and violent power struggles may no longer happen in China, but we
often meet up with their enduring effects: effects so subtle and yet traumatic that only some …

In his 'Theses on the Philosophy of History'Walter Benjamin argued that “every image of the
past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear …

Lian Duan1 abstract: In this essay the author lays a foundation for constructing a narrative
model, which aims at rewriting the development of Chinese art in the first half of the 20th …

What is art and what is its role in a China that is changing at a dizzying speed? These
questions lie at the heart of Chinese contemporary art. Subversive Strategies paves the way …

Written in 1996, A Private Life (Siren shenghuo) is one of the most important works by Chen
Ran, a key representative of the" individualized writing"(gerenhua xiezuo) of the 1990s …