Contemporary Chinese Art and Film: Theory Applied and Resisted

343 Pages·2013·16.41 MB·English

by  Kuo, ed. Jason C

Contemporary Chinese
Art and Film
Also by Jason C. Kuo
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Innovation within Tradition: The Painting of Huang Pin-hung
The Austere Landscape: The Paintings of Hung-jen
Word as Image: The Art of Chinese Seal Engraving
Zhuang Zhe, 1991–92
Cuo wanwu yu biduan [Embodying Myriad of Things at the Tip of Brush]
Chen Qikuan
Yishushi yu yishu piping de tansuo [Rethinking Art History and Art Criticism]
Art and Cultural Politics in Postwar Taiwan
Yishushi yu yishu piping de shijian [Practicing Art History and Art Criticism]
Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung’s Late Work
Chinese Ink Painting Now
As Editor
Meigan yu zaoxing [Sense of Beauty and Creation of Form]
Luo Qing huaji [The Paintings of Luo Qing]
Dangdai Taiwan huihua wenxuan, 1945-1990 [Essays on Contemporary Painting
Taiwan, 1945-1990]
Born of Earth and Fire: Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection
Heirs to a Great Tradition: Modern Chinese Paintings from the Tsien-hsiang-chai
Collection
The Helen D. Ling Collection of Chinese Ceramics
Taiwan shijue wenhua [Visual Culture in Taiwan]
Discovering Chinese Painting: Dialogues with American Art Historians Under-
standing Asian Art
Double Beauty: Qing Dynasty Couplets from the Lechangzai Xuan Collection (with
Peter Sturman)
Discovering Chinese Painting: Dialogues with Art Historians
Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s–1930s
Perspectives on Connoisseurship of Chinese Painting
Stones from Other Mountains: Chinese Painting Studies in Postwar America
Contemporary Chinese
Art and Film:
Theory Applied and Resisted
Edited with an Introduction by
Jason C. Kuo
Washington, DC
Copyright © 2012 by Jason C. Kuo
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Contents
Acknowledgments x
Note on Transcription xi
Introduction 1
1. Traces of Empire: Deconstructing Hou Hanru’s “Post-
colonialist” Reading of Contemporary Chinese Art
Paul Gladston 13
2. The Art World of Post-Deng China: Market,
Globalization, and Cultural Nationalism
Meiqin Wang 37
3. The International Identity of Chinese Art: Theoretical
Debates on Chinese Contemporary Art in the 1990s
Yiyang Shao 67
4. Oh Father, Where Art Thou? A Bakhtinian Reading of
Luo Zhongli’s Father
Stephen J. Goldberg 89
5. Imperious Griffonage: Xu Bing and the Graphic
Regime
Hajime Nakatani 107
6. The Discursive Formation of the Role of the
Independent Curator in Taiwan during the 1990s
Po-shin Chiang, Translated by Michael Fei 141
7. Encircling the City: Peasant Migration in
Contemporary Chinese Media
Ping Fu 171
viii Contents
8. Between Realism and Romanticism: Queering Gender
Representation in Cui Zi’en’s Night Scene
Megan M. Ferry 185
9. Couching Race in the Global Era: Intra-Asian Racism
in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Nick Kaldis 209
10. Filmic Transposition of the Roses: Stanley Kwan’s
Feminine Response to Eileen Chang’s Women
Joyce Chi-hui Liu 229
11. Ethnicity, Nationality, Translocality: A Critical
Reflection on the Question of Theory in Chinese Film
Studies
Yingjin Zhang 243
Notes 261
About the Editor 323
About the Contributors 325