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
Contemporary Chinese Art in Vancouver Introduction to Yellow Signal: New Media in China
by Zheng Shengtian
China: Then and Now
by Barbara London
Interview with Wang Jianwei on Yellow Signal
by Zheng Shengtian
Kan Xuan: Performing the Imagination
by Joni Low
Wind, Life Stilled, and Wild, Lissome Things: The Work of Zhang Peili, Geng Jianyi, and Huang Ran
by Karen Smith
Fifth Night: Interview with Yang Fudong
by Daina Augaitis
Liu Xiaodong vs. Hou Hsiao-hsien: An Interview
by Kao Tzu-chin
RongRong & inri: More Photographs in the River of Time
by Britta Erickson
The Different Worlds of Cao Fei
by Alice Ming Wai Jim
The Formative Years: Social Media and Art in China
by Diana Freundl
Question and Answer with An Xiao Mina
by Diana Freundl