Tracing Contemporary Chinese Art An Ethnographic Journey Through a Decade in Shanghai

This book explores the author's ten-year ethnographic journey in different locations in Shanghai. His immersion in China’s art world is grounded in a topology of places and new ways of writing and deploying history today. The ethnographic approaches to experiencing, analysing and representing s...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leung, Isaac
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Rockbund Art Museum—A museum’s history of the present
  • Chapter 3: Long Museum and Yuz Museum—A heterotopic vision mediated by billionaires
  • Chapter 4: Art districts—A reflection on the fate of Chinese cities
  • Chapter 5: Commercial gallery—A reinvention of self in the ‘charismatic-networked game’
  • Chapter 6: In-between spaces—A global adventure for collectors and curators
  • Chapter 7: Conclusion