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.
Volume 10, Number 6, November/December 2011
Inside this issue
The Second Yishu Awards for Critical Writing on Contemporary Chinese Art
An Antithesis to Conceptualism: On Zhang Peili
by Huang Zhuan
Super-sized Exhibitions, Throwing Away Money Like Dirt, and Digital Fireworks: Anticipatory Manufacturing and Extravagant Displays of Symbolic Representations of the Rise of China
by Zhu Qi
Can Blandness Be Praised?
by Voon Pow Bartlett
Pictorial City: Chinese Urbanism and Contemporary Photography
by Alice Schmatzberger
Xu Yong’s This Face
by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Evoking Past into Present: The Spectral Imagination of Howie Tsui
by Joni Low
Annysa Ng: A Matter of Life and Death
by Stephanie Bailey
Looking and Laughing: Ken Lum at the Vancouver Art Gallery
by Jamie Hilder
The Arc of the Archive—Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents
by Micki McCoy