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.
Since its inauguration in May 2002, Yishu has raised its profile internationally to become one of the most respected journals devoted to contemporary Chinese art. Appealing to professionals in the art and academic fields, as well as art enthusiasts in general, Yishu is now the journal of record for the high quality coverage of issues and events pertinent to Chinese art today. Its high standard of critical writing by thinkers from around the world allows us to voice ideas that communicate across cultures.
Inside this issue
In Defense of Difference: Notes on Magiciens de la terre, Twenty-five Years Later
by Hou Hanru
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Asia Art Archive Conference
Sites of Construction: Exhibitions and the Making of Recent Art History in Asia
Exhibition as Site—Extended Case Study (China 1993)
Why 1993? Coincidence or Convergence?
by Julia F. Andrews
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Panel Discussion: Exhibition as Site—Extended Case Study (China 1993)
by Anthony Yung, Julia F. Andrews, Andreas Schmid, Chang Tsong-zung, Francesca Dal Lago, Kong Chang’an, Wang Youshen
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Chang Tsong-zung and Hanart 30 Years: An Interview with Zheng Shengtian
by Zheng Shengtian
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