Issue #80 The Missing Front Line

The Missing Front Line

Carol Yinghua Lu

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A street scene in Chaozhou, a small coastal city in south China, Feburary 2017. Photo: Liu Ding.

Issue #80
March 2017










Notes
1

Mao Zedong, “Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art,” May 1942. Available at marxists.org .

2

Zhou Yang, “Carry forward the Cause to the Future, Literature and Art in the New Era of Prosperous Socialism”—a report at the Fourth National Conference on Literature and Art on November 1, 1979, People’s Daily, November 20, 1979.

3

Ibid.

4

Fine Arts in China, vol. 11 (1986): 4.

5

Xiao Meng, “Return to Your Role—Thoughts Evoked by the ‘94 China Art Fair,” Artists Communication 139 (February 1995), China Artists Association: 17.

6

Artists Communication 144 (July 1995), China Artists Association: 33–36.

7

Xiang Biao, “Seeking a New World: Modern China’s Shifting Understanding of ‘the World,’” Kaifang Shidai (Open Times) 9 (Beijing, 2009).

8

Dai Jinhua, “Nation, Fashion, Politics: Ang Lee ‘Lust, Caution’ and the Imagined Identity of China’s New Middle Class,” lecture delivered at the University of Hawaii, 2011.

9

Ibid.

10

“Little Movements: Self-Practice in Contemporary Art” was curated by Liu Ding and Carol Lu. The first installment of the exhibition was held at the Shenzhen OCT Contemporary Art Terminal in 2010. The exhibition toured to Museion, in Italy, in 2013.