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Yishu- Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art

Volume 8, Number 1, January / February 2009
 


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Editor’s Note
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Contributors

 

Autumn 2008 Asian Biennials

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Premature Farewell and Recycled Urbanism:
Guangzhou Triennial and Shanghai Biennale in 2008
Hilary Tsui
   

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Post-West: Guangzhou Triennial,
Taipei Biennial, and Singapore Biennale
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker
   
 

Contemporary Asian Art and the
Phenomenon of the Biennial

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Introduction
Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen
   

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Biennials and the Circulation of Contemporary Asian Art
John Clark
   

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Periodical Exhibitions in China:
Diversity of Motivation and Format
Britta Erickson
   

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Who’s Speaking? Who’s Listening?
The Post-colonial and the Transnational in Contestation and the Strategies of the Taipei Biennial and the Beijing International Art Biennale
Kao Chien-hui
   

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Contradictions, Violence, and Multiplicity in the Globalization of Culture: The Gwangju Biennale
Sohl Lee
   

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The Imagined Trans-Asian Community and the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale
Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen
   
 

Artist Features

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Excerpts fom Yang Shaobin’s Notebook: A Textual Interpretation of X-Blind Spot
Long March Writing Group
   

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Li Yifan: From Social Archives to Social Project
Bao Dong
   
 

Art During the Cultural Revolution

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Art and China’s Revolution
Barbara Pollack
   

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Zheng Shengtian and Hank Bull in Conversation about the Exhibition Art and China’s Revolution, Asia Society, New York
   

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Red, Smooth, and Ethnically Unified: Ethnic Minorities in Propaganda Posters of the People’s Republic of China
Micki McCoy
   
 

Reviews

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Chen Jiagang: The Great Third Front
Jonathan Goodman


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AAA Project: Review of A-Z, 26 Locations to Put Everything
Melissa Lam


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Chinese Name Index
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Chinese Table of Contents
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