Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art is the first English language journal to focus on Chinese contemporary art and culture. Each bi-monthly issue features scholarly essays on topical issues, interviews with artists and curators, conference proceedings, and critical commentary on exhibitions and books. Yishu offers a platform for a wide range of voices who are living and telling the story of contemporary Chinese art from a diversity of perspectives, and who provide dialogue and debate around current visual and literary forms produced within what constitutes an expanded understanding of contemporary Chinese art.
Inside this issue
Urgent Is to Take a Distance
by Hou Hanru
A Crisis of Contemporary Art in China?
by Gao Minglu
Shanghai Art Histories: Cracked Open
by Defne Ayas, Xhingyu Chen, Biljana Ciric, Zhao Chuan
Xu Bing: Transcending Culture
by Scott Albright
The Night Revels: Wang Qingsong in Conversation with Danielle Shang
by Danielle Shang
We Are Polit-Sheer-Form
by Mathieu Borysevicz
Jin Shan: An Unfortunate Lucky
by Karen Smith
Yam Lau: A Life of Re-creation
by David Court
Zhou Tao: The Man Who Plants Scenarios
by Jeanne Gerrity
Liu Wei: Trilogy
by Xhingyu Chen
New Slogan, Old Tricks: Zhang Dali in New York
by Stephanie Bailey