This book contains analysis of different domains of contemporary art in China seen through the lens of the epistemological changes described in China Pluperfect I: Epistemology of Past and Outside in Chinese Art.It first looks at the concept of “ink art,” describing how it meant different things to different people in the former colony and how these different meanings came to determine certain institutional choices made at the beginning of the 21st century. The following chapters are dedicated to issues related to the urban and rural contexts for art creation in Mainland China and Hong Kong. One chapter observes the ups and downs of the representations of cities in the history of the People’s Republic of China and how they have defined a certain idea of culture. Another looks at how Chinese cities have been exceptional centers of art creations over the last thirty to forty years through the example of Shenzhen where a vibrant art scene, albeit closely connected to Hong Kong which has b
In Painting Architecture: Jiehua in Yuan China, 1271–1368, Leqi Yu has conducted comprehensive research on jiehua or ruled-line painting, a unique painting genre in fourteenth-century China. This genre relies on tools such as rulers to represent architectural details and structures accurately. Such technical consideration and mechanical perfection linked this painting category with the builder’s art, which led to Chinese elites’ belittlement and won Mongol patrons’ admiration. Yu suggests that painters in the Yuan dynasty made new efforts towards a unique modular system and an unsurpassable plain-drawing tradition. She argues that these two strategies made architectural paintings in the Yuan dynasty entirely different from their predecessors, as well as making the art form extremely difficult for subsequent painters to imitate.
An analysis of the lessons learned from tuberculosis control in Shanghai. Tuberculosis Control and Institutional Change in Shanghai, 1911-2011 is the first book on the most widespread and deadly infectious disease in China, both historically and today. Weaving together interviews with data from periodicals and local archives in Shanghai, Rachel Core examines the rise and fall of tuberculosis control in China from the 1950s to the 1990s. Under the socialist work unit system, the vast majority of people had guaranteed employment, a host of benefits tied to their workplace, and there was little mobility--factors that made the delivery of medical and public health services possible in both urban and rural areas. The dismantling of work units amid wider market reforms in the 1980s and 1990s led to the rise of temporary and casual employment and a huge migrant worker population, with little access to health care, creating new challenges in TB control. This study of Shanghai will provide valu
The fact that Snow did not sneak into “red China” to gather information constituting the basis of his Red Start over China all alone is in many instances isunderstood even by scholars.Mao Zedong’s biography has been the subject of an international mountain of commentary in China and elsewhere. Biographies praising Mao and those slandering him are all based on the American journalist Edgar Snow’s (1905–1972) account in Red Star over China for the route Mao traveled from early childhood through his youth.How the “Red Star” Rose introduces the image of Mao and the biographical information made known to the world through the publication of Red Star, and with its publication the circumstances which they fundamentally undermined. Ishikawa Yoshihiro uses Mao Zedong as raw material to examine from whence and how ordinary historical information and images which we habitually use unconsciously come into being.He desires to help readers to reconsider the historicity of the generation of not only
The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, holds a spectacular array of ancient textiles that were made in Islamic lands and traded along the Silk Road, the network of ancient trade routes that linked China, Ce
***《臺灣為什麼重要？》作者任雪麗（Shelley Rigger），這次要告訴我們一個拚經濟的故事：臺商與臺企如何拚出了中國經濟起飛。***還記得嗎？一九九五年上映的首集《玩具總動員》裡，原本自認是太空騎警的巴斯光年，發現手臂上刻著「Made in Taiwan（臺灣製造）」字樣，才認識到自己只是量產玩具。那是一個頌揚臺灣「經濟奇蹟」的年代。只是，如果把當年情節照搬至今日拍攝，巴斯光年看到的無疑會是「Made in China（中國製造）」，現在令世人稱奇的也變作「中國崛起」。你或許以為：中國經濟起飛的關鍵在於二○○一年加入世界貿易組織（WTO），自此如鴻鵠展翅，將燕雀臺灣遠拋在後。但本書要告訴你：沒有臺灣人的指引，就沒有中國崛起。美國著名臺灣專家任雪麗，於書中追溯並勾勒了戰後至今數十年來，海峽兩岸經濟從完全脫鉤到逐步整合的過程。她認為，臺商與臺企居中牽線，領航中國接軌國際，是中國經濟得以騰躍的一塊最重要跳板。她更主張，若無上述二者之助，中國未必能有今日繁榮光景，至少無法上升如此快速。因此，她特意以臺灣商人與企業為主角，講述他們為何跨海到中國拚經濟，又是如何拚出事業第二春，以及如何在無形中協助了本對全球市場需求陌生的中國企業日益茁壯，最終建立起紅色供應鏈。而且不只經濟。作者強調臺灣人大舉西進後，對中國的文化與社會也造成廣泛影響，像是帶起拍婚紗、吃個人小火鍋、喝咖啡等輕奢風尚；由於做了不少一手訪談，寫來相當生動有趣。在臺灣與中國之間緊密的經濟紐帶，因為兩岸緊張局勢和美中角力衝突可能將發生重大變化的時刻，本書帶領我們回顧歷史、分析現下與展望未來，可說是及時之作。而作者在談兩岸經濟互動的同時，自不免需要梳理臺灣經濟變遷：從香蕉王國到雨傘王國，從做Nike到做iPhone乃至做晶圓代工。對於想要迅速掌握當代臺灣經濟發展大略的讀者，本書也是絕佳入門。
Reverse paintings on glass occupy a special place in Chinese art, spanning the genres of glass working, export art, folk art, erotica, and meiren hua (paintings of beauties). Their unique appearance is the result of a challenging production process in which artists layer pigments in the reverse order of the normal painting procedure–highlights first, then mid-layers, and finally base colours. The final product is viewed in reverse from the opposite side of the glass, which must also be considered when creating the paintings. A product of the encounter between East and West, the manufacture of glass paintings in China was stimulated by European glass paintings brought to the imperial court by traders and diplomats in the seventeenth century. Initially made in Canton for Western consumers, by the eighteenth century their production had spread throughout China, with subjects and styles adapted to suit local tastes. The glass paintings in the Mei Lin Collection represent this later floweri
Having made documentary films screened at the most prestigious film festivals in the West, Chinese documentary filmmaker Wang Bing presents a unique case of independent filmmaking. In The Cinema of Wang Bing, Bruno Lessard examines the documentarian’s most important films, focusing on the two obsessions at the heart of his oeuvre—the legacy of Maoist China in the present and the transformation of labor since China’s entry into the market economy—and how the crucial figures of survivor and worker are represented on screen. Bruno Lessard argues that Wang Bing is a minjian (grassroots) intellectual whose films document the impact of Mao’s Great Leap Forward on Chinese collective memory and register the repercussions of China’s turn to neoliberalism on workers in the post-Reform era. Bringing together Chinese documentary studies and China studies, the author shows how Wang Bing’s practice reflects the minjian ethos when documenting the survivors of the Great Famine and those who have not b
Made In China touches on two seemingly unrelated subjects - adoption and sibling relations. As told in this story. These are intertwined and very important to one young child who literally was "made i
By the year 2020, America is outsourcing virtually all its manufacturing, most of it to China. We depend on them for almost everything we buy and sell; without them, our economy would collapse. That d
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