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Selected Bibliography


Works in English | Works in Chinese| Exhibition Catalogues

Abbas, Akbar. "Hong Kong: Other Histories, Other Politics." Public Culture 9, no. 3 (Spring 1997), pp. 293-313.

Anagnost, Ann. "Cultural Nationalism and Chinese Modernity." In Cultural Nationalism in East Asia: Representation and Identity, ed. Harumi Befu. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Andrews, Julia F. Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Andrews, Julia F., and Gao Minglu. "The Avant-Garde's Challenge to Official Art." In Urban Spaces: Autonomy and Community in Contemporary China, ed. Deborah Davis et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 221-78.

"Art of the Chinese Diaspora." Special issue of Art and AsiaPacific 1, no. 2 (1994).

Barmé, Geremie. "The Chinese Velvet Prison: Culture in the 'New Age,' 1976-1989." Issues and Studies 25, no. 8 (1989), pp. 42-62.

_____. "To Screw Foreigners Is Patriotic: China's Avant-Garde Nationalists." China Journal, no. 34 (July 1995), pp. 209-34.

Barmé, Geremie, ed. Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

Berry, Chris, ed. Perspectives on Chinese Cinema. London: BFI, 1991.

Chan, Lauk'ung. "Ten Years of the Chinese Avantgarde: Waiting for the Curtain to Fall." Flash Art 25 (January-February 1992), pp. 110-14.

Chan, Sylvia. "The Blooming of a 'Hundred Flowers' and the Literature of the 'Wounded Generation.'" In China Since the "Gang of Four," ed. B. Brugger. London: Croom Helm, 1980, pp. 174-201.

Chang, Arnold. Painting in the People's Republic of China: The Politics of Style. Boulder: Westview Press, 1980.

Clark, John. "Problems of Modernity in Chinese Painting." Oriental Art 32 (Autumn 1986), pp. 270-83.

_____. "Taiwanese Painting Under the Japanese Occupation." Journal of Oriental Studies 25, no. 1 (1987), pp. 63-104.

_____. "Postmodernism and Recent Expressionist Chinese Oil Painting." Asian Studies Review 15, no. 2 (November 1991).

_____. "Official Reactions to Modern Art in China Since the Beijing Massacre." Pacific Affairs 65, no. 3 (1992), pp. 334-48.

Clarke, David. Art & Place: Essays on Art from a Hong Kong Perspective. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1996.

_____. "Varieties of Cultural Hybridity: Hong Kong Art in the Late Colonial Era." Public Culture 9, no. 3 (Spring 1997), pp. 395-415.

Clunas, Craig. Art in China. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Cohen, Joan Lebold. The New Chinese Painting, 1949-1986. New York: Abrams, 1987.

Cohen, Myron. "Cultural and Political Inventions in Modern China: The Case of the Chinese 'Peasant.'" Daedalus 122, no. 2 (1993), pp. 151-70.

Croizier, Ralph. Art and Revolution in Modern China: The Lingnan (Cantonese) School of Painting, 1906-1951. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

_____. "Art and Society in Modern China: A Review Article." Journal of Asian Studies 49, no. 3 (August 1990), pp. 587-602.

Dai Jinhua. "Redemption and Consumption: Depicting Culture in the 1990s." Positions 4, no. 1 (1996), pp. 127-43.

Dijk, Hans van. "Painting in China After the Cultural Revolution: Style Developments and Theoretical Debates, Part II: 1985-1991." China Information 6, no. 4 (Spring 1992), pp. 1-18.

Friedman, Edward. "Democracy and 'Mao Fever.'" Journal of Contemporary China 6 (Summer 1994), pp. 84-95.

Fu Shen. Challenging the Past: The Paintings of Chang Dai-chien. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1991.

Gao Minglu. "From the Local Context to the International Context: An Essay on the Critique of Art and Culture." In The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art 96-97 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Arts Centre, 1996), pp. 23-29 (also in Chinese).

Gladney, Dru C. "Representing Nationality in China: Refiguring Majority/Minority Identities." Journal of Asian Studies 53, no. 1 (February 1994), pp. 92-123.

Goldman, Merle. China's Intellectuals: Advice and Dissent. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Goldman, Merle, Timothy Cheek, and Carol Lee Hamrin, eds. China's Intellectuals and the State. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Hay, Jonathan. "Ambivalent Icons: Works by Five Chinese Artists Based in the United States." Orientations 23, no. 7 (July 1992), pp. 37-43.

Hinterthur, Petra. Modern Art in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Myer Publishing Co., 1985.

Holm, David. Art and Ideology in Prerevolutionary China. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

Hou Hanru. "Beyond the Cynical." Art and Asia Pacific 3, no. 1 (1996).
_____. "Towards an 'Un-Unofficial Art': De-ideologicalisation of China's Contemporary Art in the 1990s." Third Text, no. 34 (Spring 1996), pp. 37-52.

Hua Junwu, ed. Contemporary Chinese Painting. Beijing: New York Press, 1984.

Jose, Nicholas. "New Wave Art." New Asia Review (Summer 1994), pp. 18-24.

Kao, Mayching. "China's Response to the West in Art." Ph.D. diss., Stanford University, 1972.

_____. Twentieth-Century Chinese Painting. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Kraus, Richard. "China's Cultural 'Liberalization' and Conflict Over the Social Organization of the Arts." Modern China 9, no. 2 (April 1983), pp. 212-27.

_____. "Art Policies of the Cultural Revolution." In New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution, ed. Christine Wong et al. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies, 1991.

_____. Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and Chinese Art of Calligraphy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

_____. "China's Artists Between Plan and Market." In Urban Spaces: Autonomy and Community in Contemporary China, ed. Deborah Davis et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Laing, Ellen Johnston. "Chinese Peasant Painting, 1958-1976: Amateur and Professional." Art International 27, no. 1 (January-March 1984), pp. 1-12.

_____. The Winking Owl: Art in the People's Republic of China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

_____. "Is There Post-Modern Art in the People's Republic of China?" In Modernity in Asian Art, ed. John Clark. Sydney: Wild Peony, 1993, pp. 207-21.

Lee, Benjamin. "Going Public." Public Culture 5 (1993), pp. 165-78 [on Xu Bing].

Lee, Leo Ou-fan. "Two Films from Hong Kong: Parody and Allegory." In New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics, ed. Nick Browne et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 202-15.

_____. "Tales from the 'Floating City.'" Harvard Asia Pacific Review (Winter 1996-97), pp. 43-49.

_____. "Trans-Chinese: Notes on Language and Sensibility." Venue 1 (Fall 1997), pp. 160-72.

Lin Xiaoping. "Those Parodic Images: A Glimpse of Contemporary Chinese Art." Leonardo 30, no. 2 (1997), pp. 113-22.

Link, Perry, Richard Madsen, and Paul Pickowicz, eds. Unofficial China: Popular Culture and Thought in the People's Republic. Boulder: Westview Press, 1989.

Lu, Sheldon Hsaio-peng. "Postmodernity, Popular Culture, and the Intellectual: A Report on Post-Tiananmen China." boundary 2 23, no. 2 (1996), pp. 139-69.

_____. "Art, Culture, and Cultural Criticism in Post-New China." New Literary History 28 (1997), pp. 111-33.

Lu, Victoria. "The Rising New Moon: Contemporary Art in Taiwan since 1945." Art and Asia Pacific (September, 1993), pp. 40-46.

Lufkin, Felicity. Images of Minorities in the Art of the People's Republic of China. Master's thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1990.

MacRitchie, Lynn. "Precarious Paths on the Mainland." Art in America 82 (March 1994), pp. 51-53.

McIntyre, Sophie. "Made in Taiwan." Art and Asia Pacific 3, no. 3 (1996), pp. 83-86.

Raddock, David M. "Beyond Mao and Tiananmen: China's Emerging Avant-Garde." New Art Examiner (February-March 1995).

Schell, Orville. "Chairman Mao as Pop Art." In The Mandate of Heaven (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), pp. 279-92.

Silbergeld, Jerome, with Gong Jisui. Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Socialist State, and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993.

Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China. London: Hutchinson, 1990.

Sullivan, Michael. The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art. Rev. and exp. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

_____. Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Sun, Shirley. "Lu Xun and the Chinese Woodcut Movement, 1929-1935." Ph.D. diss., Stanford University, 1974.

Taylor, Janelle S. "Non-Sense in Context: Xu Bing's Art and Its Publics." Public Culture 5 (1993), pp. 317-27.

Tsao Tsing-yuan. "The Birth of the Goddess of Democracy." In Popular Protest and Political Culture in China, ed. Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Elizabeth J. Perry. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994, pp. 140-47.

Wang, Chia Chi Jason. "Made in Taiwan." Art and Asia Pacific 1, no. 2 (1994), pp. 73-77.

Wang, Yuejin. "Anxiety of Portraiture: Quest for/Questioning Ancestral Icons in Post-Mao China." In Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China, ed. Liu Kang and Xiaobing Tang (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993).

Widmer, Ellen, and David Der-Wei Wang. From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Wu Hung. "Tiananmen Square: A Political History of Monuments." Representations 35 (Summer 1991), pp. 84-117.

Wu, Lawrence. "Kang Youwei and the Westernization of Modern Chinese Art." Orientations 21, no. 3 (March 1990), pp. 46-53.

Yen Chuan-ying. "The Art Movement in the 1930s in Taiwan." In Modernity in Asian Art, ed. John Clark. Sydney: Wild Peony, 1993, pp. 45-59.

Yorke, A. "The Role of the Artist in Contemporary China: Tradition and Modern Attitudes to Art Appreciation." Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 20-21 (1988-89).

Zha Jianying. China Pop. New York: New Press, 1995.



Works in Chinese | Works in English | Exhibition Catalogues

Yishujia ÷ Taiwan meishu (Artist ÷ Taiwanese Art: Survey, 1975-1995), ed. Ni Tsai-chin. Taipei: Artist Magazine, 1995.

Cai Yuanpei. Meiyu lunji (Art Education). Changsha: Hunan Educational Press, 1987.

Chen Yingde. Haiwai kan dalu yishu (Mainland Art Abroad). Taipei: Art Publishers, 1987.

Gao Minglu. "Bawu meishu yundong ('85 Art Movement)." Meishujia tongxun (Artists' Journal) 1986.3 (June 1986), pp. 15-23.

_____. "Meishu, quanli, gongfan: Zhengzhi popu xianxiang" (Kitsch, Power, and Complicity: The Political Pop Phenomenon). Xiongshi Meishu (Lion Art) 297 (November 1995), pp. 36-57.

Gao Minglu et al. Zhongguo dangdai meishushi, 1985-1986 (History of Chinese Contemporary Art, 1985-1986). Shanghai: Shanghai People's Press, 1991.

Ho Huai-shuo, ed. Jindai Zhongguo meishu lunji (Essays on Modern Chinese Art). Vols. 1-6. Taipei: Artists Press, 1991.

Hsiao Ch'iung-jui. "Zhanhou Taiwan meishu dashiji" (A Chronology of Postwar Taiwanese Art). Yanhuang Yishu (Yanhuang Art) 10-19 (1990-1991).

_____. Taiwan meishushi yanjiu lunji (Studies in Taiwanese Art History). Taipei: Tung Da Publishing, 1991.

_____. Wuyue yu dongfang--Zhongguo meishu xiandaihua yundong ziazhanhou Taiwan zhi fazhan, 1945-1970 (The Fifth Moon and Eastern Painting Groups: Chinese Modern Art Movements in Postwar Taiwan, 1945-1970). Taipei: Dongda Press, 1991.

Hsieh Li-fa. "Sanshi niandai Shanghai, Dongjing, Taibei de meishu guanxi" (Artistic Links Between Shanghai, Tokyo, and Taipei during the 1930s). Xiongshi Meishu (Lion Art) 160 (1984).

_____. Riju shidai Taiwan meishu yundong shi (The Taiwanese Art Movement during the Japanese Occupation). 3d ed. Taipei, 1992.

Jaoyubu dierci quanguo meishu zhanlianhui zhuanji (Second National Art Exhibition of the Ministry of Education), vol. 2, Xiandai shuhuaji (Modern Calligraphy and Painting); vol. 3, Xiandai xihua tu'an diaokeji (Western Painting, Design, and Sculpture). Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1937.

Kao Chien-hui. Dangdai wenhuayishu sexiang (Fine Art: Unorthodox Visual Culture in the 1990s). Taipei: Artists Press, 1996.

Kuo, Jackson, ed. Taiwan shijue wenhua (Taiwanese Visual Culture). Taipei: Artists Press, 1995.

Lang Shaojun. Lun Zhongguo xiandai meishu (Chinese Modern Art). Nanjing: Jiangsu Art Press, 1988.

Li Hua, Li Shusheng, and Ma Ke, eds. Zhongguo xinxing banhua wushi nian (Fifty Years of the New Chinese Print Movement). Shenyang: Liaoning Art Press, 1981.

Li Song. Xu Beihung nianpu (A Biography of Xu Beihung). Beijing: People's Art Press, 1985.

Li Xianting. "Zhengzhi popu he wanshi xianshizhuyi" (Political Pop and Cynical Realism). Meishu Xinchao (New Wave Art), no. 1 (1993).

Lin Hsing-yueh. Taiwan meishu fengyun sishi nian (Forty Years of Taiwanese Art). Taipei: Independence Evening News Publication, 1987.

_____. "Jushi niandai bentu qianweiyishu de zhanwang" (Prospects of Native [Taiwanese] Avant-Garde Art in the 1990s). Xiongshi Meishu (Lion Art) 256 (1992), pp. 40-69.

Liu Ching-fu. "Xiandaizhuyi de shiyanqi." In Taiwan meishu xinfengmao (Taiwan Art, 1945-1993), ed. Lin Ping. Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 1993, pp. 24-28.

Liushi nian wenyi dashiji, 1919-1979 (A Record of Sixty Years of Major Events in Literature and Art), ed. Drafting Committee for the Fourth Congress of Literary and Art Works. Beijing: Theory and Policy Research Center, Ministry of Culture, Literature, and Art Research Institute, 1979.

Liu Xilin. Yihai chunqiu: Jiang Zhaohe zhuan (Spring and Autumn in the Sea of Art: A Biography of Jiang Zhaohe). Shanghai: Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Press, 1984.

Lu Peng and Yi Dan. Zhongguo xiandai yishu shi, 1979-1989 (A History of Chinese Modern Art, 1979-1989). Changsha: Hunan Art Press, 1992.

Lu, Victoria. "Zhongguo nuxing Yishudi Fazhan yu gimeng" (The Development of Chinese Feminist Art). Yishujia (Artist) 231 (1993).

_____. "Tanxun Taiwan bashi niandai yishu fengge" (A Study of Taiwanese Art Styles in the 1980s). In Taiwan shijue wenhua (Taiwanese Visual Culture), ed. Jackson Kuo. Taipei: Artists Press, 1995), pp. 210-15.

Meishu (Art Monthly). Beijing: Chinese Artists Association, 1952-.

Meishu Sichao (Art Trends). Hubei: Hubei Artists Association, 1985-.

Meishu Xinchao (New Wave Art). Taipei, 1993-95.

Ni Tsai-chin. "Xifangmeishu Taiwanzhizao" (Western Art, Made in Taiwan). Xiongshi Meishu (Lion Art) 242 (1991), pp. 114-33.

_____. "Zhongguo shuimo, Taiwan quwei" (Chinese Ink, Taiwanese Taste). Xiongshi Meishu (Lion Art) 244 (1991), pp. 150-59.

_____. "Taiwanmeishu zhongde Taiwanyishi" (Taiwanese Identity in Taiwanese Art). Xiongshi Meishu (Lion Art) 249 (1991), 136-57.

Pai Hsüeh-lan. "Taiwan zaoqi xiyang meishu zuopin zhan" (Early Exhibitions of Western-style Art in Taiwan). Xiongshi Meishu (Lion Art) 228 (1990), pp. 113-19.

Ruan Rongsheng and Hu Guanghu. Zhonghua minguo huihua shi (The History of Art in the Republic of China). Chengdu, 1991.

Tao Yongbai. Zhongguo yuohua, 1700-1985 (Chinese Oil Painting, 1700-1985). Nanjing: Jiangsu Art Press, 1988.

Wang Hsiu-hsiung. "Taiwan diyidai xihuajia de baoshou yu quanweizhuyi ji duizhanhou Taiwanxihua de yixiang" (The Conservatism and Authority of Taiwan's First Generation of Painters and Their Influence on Postwar Western-Style Painting in Taiwan). In Zhongguo, xiandai, meishu (China, Modernity, Art). Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 1990, pp. 137-74.

Wu Pu. "Menghun suoji de tudi: Fang Guangfuchu zeng dao Taiwan de jiwei dalu huajia" (Visits to Some Mainland Artists Who Emigrated
to Taiwan in the late 1940s). Xiongshi Meishu (Lion Art) 221 (1989),
pp. 60-76.

Xiongshi Meishu (Lion Art) 297 (November 1995). Special commemorative issue on the '85 Movement.

Yen Chüan-ying. "Taiwan zaoqi xiyiangmeishu de fazhan" (The Development of Early Taiwanese Western-Style Art). Yishujia (Artist) 168-170 (1989).

Yishujia (Artist). Taipei, 1975-.

Zhang Shaoxia and Li Xiaoshan. Zhongguo xiandai huihua shi (History of Modern Chinese Painting). Nanjing: Jiangsu Art Press, 1987.

Zhongguo Meishu Bao (Chinese Art). Beijing: Central Academy of Fine Arts, 1985-.

Zhongguo, xiandai, meishu (China, Modernity, Art). Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 1990.

Zhu Boxuong. "Juelanshe xiaoshi" (A Brief History of the Juelan Association). Meishujia 31, pp. 23-25.

Zhu Boxuong and Chen Ruilin. Zhongguo xihua wushi nian (Fifty Years of Western Painting in China). Beijing, 1989.

Zhu Pu. Lin Fengmian. Shanghai: Shanghai Art Press, 1988.


Exhibition Catalogues | Works in English | Works in Chinese

Against the Tide. New York: Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1997.

Andrews, Julia F., and Gao Minglu. Fragmented Memory: The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile. Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, 1993.

Another Long March: Chinese Conceptual and Installation Art in the Nineties. Breda: Fundament Foundation, 1997.

ArtTaiwan: Biennale di Venezia 1995. Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 1995.

Cai Guo Qiang: Flying Dragon in the Heavens. Humlebaek, Denmark: Louisana Museum, 1997.

Cai Guo Qiang: From the Pan-Pacific. Iwaki City: Art Museum, 1994.

Chang Tsong-zung. Man and Earth: Contemporary Paintings from Taiwan. Denver: Asian Art Coordinating Council, 1994.

Chang Tsong-zung et al. Quotation Marks: Contemporary Chinese Paintings. Singapore: Singapore Art Museum, 1997.

China's New Art, Post-1989. Hong Kong: Hanart T Z Gallery, 1993.

China: Zeitgenössische Malerei. Bonn: Kunstmuseums, 1996.

Chu-goku gendai bijustsu '97/Chinese Contemporary Art 1997. Tokyo: Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, 1997.

Configura 2: Dialog der Kulturen. Erfurt: Configura-Projekt, 1995.

Contemporary Chinese Painting: An Exhibition from the People's Republic of China. San Francisco: Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, 1983.

Des del País del Centre: Avantguardes artístiques xineses. Barcelona: Centre d'Art Santa Mónica, 1995.

Dushi zhongde siran: Renwen yu wuzhi de duehua (Urban Nature: A Dialogue between Humanism and Materialism). Taipei: The Empire Art Educational Foundation, 1994.

The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art 96-97. Hong Kong: China Oil Painting Gallery Limited, 1996.