Cao Fei's zombie movie
Cao Fei is showing a new film, Haze and Fog, using her interpretation of the zombie movie genre to offer a commentary on changing China. In the film showing at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Arts, Manchester (26 October-7 December 2013) Cao Fei employs her work to examine intimate personal and cultural relationships in contemporary metropolitan China, exploring notions of class and value structures, powerlessness, the masses as a...
Jun ware at Eskenazi
Eskenazi Ltd will present a selling exhibition of 16 Jun ware objects at its 10 Clifford Street, London, gallery from 31 October to 22 November 2013. The exhibition will be a part of the 16th Asian Art in London (31 October to 9 November). Jun ware is often described as one of the ‘Five Classic Wares’ (wu da yao) of the Song dynasty (960-1279). Jun is derived from the kiln near Juntai terrace, within the north gate of what was the...
Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture
Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture is a Saffron Asian Art and Society Series book (ISBN 9781872843377, 2012) edited by Yang Chia-Ling 楊佳玲 and Roderick Whitfield. Buy this book | Order this book | Browse digital edition. The book investigates the roles as politician, antiquarian, art dealer, and publisher, of Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉 (1866~1940), who, together with his circle of Qing loyalists...
The Music of Ink at the British Museum
The Music of Ink at the British Museum (ISBN-13 9781872843995), published 17 April 2012 to coincide with China Focus at the London Book Fair, is edited by Helen Wang with contributions by Denis Brown, Rohan de Saram, Romesh Gunesekera, Qu Lei Lei, Yang Lian, Wang Tao and Zeng Laide. Buy this book. About the book How are contemporary artists, east and west, conveying and transforming the soul, philosophy and aesthetics of the classical...
The Meaning of the Graph Yi and Its Implications for Shang Belief and Art
This book, an East Asia Journal monograph, uses a combination of written and graphic data to identify the meaning of the so-called taotie mask and the basis of Shang religion. By utilising paleographic and representational evidence, this book puts into perspective that Shang belief was not limited to the worship of royal dead ancestor spirits. Buy this book About The Meaning of the Graph Yi… In a departure from previous...
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