China's Avant-Garde, 1978-2018

Herausgeber: Berg, Daria; Strafella, Giorgio

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how China's new generation of avant-garde writers and artists are pushing the boundaries of vernacular culture, creatively appropriating artistic and literary languages from global cultures to reflect on reform-era China's transformation and the Maoist heritage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780367343576
• ISBN-10: 0367343576
• Artikelnr.: 64104584

Autorenporträt

Daria Berg is Chair Professor of Chinese Culture and Society at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Head of the Centre for Intercultural Competence at the St. Gallen Institute of Management in Asia, Singapore. Giorgio Strafella is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, and Senior Researcher in the "Sinophone Borderlands" project at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The art of transculturality Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella
Part I: The Politics of Transculturality 1. Interrogating transculturality:
from avant-garde literature to street art Andrea Riemenschnitter 2. "Words
divide, images connect": the politics of language and the language of
politics in Xu Bing's Book from the Sky and Book from the Ground Wenny Teo
Part II: Collecting the Art of Transculturality 3. How people collect
contemporary art: my typology of collecting styles Uli Sigg 4. Confusionism
Uli Sigg Part III: The Topography of Transculturality 5. Transculturality
in Hong Kong artist Annie Wan's conceptual ceramic art Silvia Fok 6.
Tibetan stories with transcultural perspectives and experimental styles:
Chinese avant-garde fiction as example Xi Liu 7. Burning words: Deng
Dafei's Dark Utopia 2 Cosima Bruno Part IV: The Frontiers of
Transculturality 8. Avant-garde 'Boys Love': female fantasy and the new
queer discourse in China Xi Tian 9. Avant-garde women's poetry from China:
Zhai Yongming and the poetry journal Wings Justyna Jagücik 10. Stealing the
art of pain: Body Art and Zhao Yue's Lattice Giorgio Strafella and Daria
Berg