China as an Issue: Artistic and Intellectual Practices Since the Second Half of the 20th Century, Volume 1
<p><em>China as an Issue</em> is an ongoing lecture series organized by the Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum since 2018. Chinese scholars are invited to discuss topics related to China or the world, as well as foreign scholars to speak about China or international questions involving the subject of China. Through rigorous scrutinization of a specific issue we try to avoid making generalizations as well as the parochial tendency to reject extraterritorial or foreign theories in the study of domestic issues. The attempt made here is not only to see the world from a local Chinese perspective, but also to observe China from a global perspective. By calling into question the underlying typology of the inside and the outside we consider China as an issue requiring discussion, rather than already having an established premise. By inviting fellow thinkers from a wide range of disciplines to discuss these topics we were able to negotiate and push the parameters of art and stimulate a discourse that intersects the arts with other discursive fields…</p>
Editors: Carol Yinghua Lu, Paolo Caffoni
Contributors: Gao Minglu, Hong Zicheng, Huang Rui, Liu Ding, Carol Yinghua Lu, Lü Peng, Shao Yiyang, Su Wei, Sun Ge, Wang Hui, Xiao Yin, Xu Jian, Yan Zhenduo, Yin Shuangxi, Yuan Jia
Managing Editor: Dong Yixuan, Sun Gaorui
Translators: Carrisa Fletcher, Huang Wenlong, Liang Yuheng, Lisa A. Yuheng, Sun Gaorui, Zhang Zhihui
Proofreader: Dong Yixuan, Nicola Guy, Huang Wenlong, Liang Yuheng, Qian Mengni, Sun Gaorui, Zhang Zhihui
Designer: Lilia Di Bella, Archive Appendix, Caleb Waldorf
Inside-Out Art Museum, Archive Books