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Made in China Journal: Volume 5, Issue 1, 2020
Edited by: Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere , Christian SoracePlease read Conditions of use before downloading the formats.
Description
‘Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. It must be spread everywhere—on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers’ homes.’
— Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1918
With these words, the great Soviet poet addressed the key question of how to bring art to people and people to art in a new world in which old aristocracies, elites, and their aesthetic privileges were fading away. In the words of art theorist Boris Groys, ‘the world promised by the leaders of the October Revolution was not merely supposed to be a more just one or one that would provide greater economic security, but it was also and in perhaps in even greater measure meant to be beautiful.’ Walking in these steps, the Chinese Revolution was a project of further experimentation and creation in the realm of the relationship between art and the people. The world it created was at once utopian and disfigured, radiant and desolate. While today that world is no longer, the questions it raised about the relationship between the working class, artistic production, and aesthetic appreciation remain with us. This issue of the Made in China Journal offers a collection of essays that examine the ‘work of arts’, intended as the extension of art beyond the confines of the museum and into the spaces of ordinary life and production.
Details
- ISSN (print):
- 2652-6352
- ISSN (online):
- 2206-9119
- Publication date:
- May 2020
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/MIC.05.01.2020
- Journal:
- Made in China Journal
- Disciplines:
- Business & Economics; Social Sciences: Politics & International Studies, Social Policy & Administration
- Countries:
- East Asia: China
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Op-eds
- The Epidemiology of Sinophobia (PDF, 0.4MB) – Gerald Roche doi
- Trade Union Reform in China: An Assessment (PDF, 0.2MB) – Geoffrey Crothall doi
China Columns
- Revolution and State Formation as Oasis Storytelling in Xinjiang (PDF, 0.9MB) – Bilal Zenab Ahmed doi
- The Coal Transition in Datong: An Ethnographic Perspective (PDF, 1.9MB) – Judith Audin doi
- The End of Sweatshops? Robotisation and the Making of New Skilled Workers in China (PDF, 0.7MB) – Hui Xu doi
- Is the Sky Falling in on Women in China? (PDF, 1.0MB) – Robert Walker and Jane Millar doi
- Garbage as Value and Sorting as Labour in China’s New Waste Policy (PDF, 1.1MB) – Adam Liebman and Goeun Lee doi
- Epidemic Control in China: A Conversation with Liu Shao-Hua (PDF, 0.5MB) – Zeng Jinyan doi
Focus
- Amateur Art Practice and the Everyday in Socialist China (PDF, 1.2MB) – A. C. Baecker doi
- Aesthetics of Socialist Internationalism: Lenin Films in the People’s Republic of China (PDF, 0.5MB) – Tina Mai Chen doi
- How Does the Phoenix Achieve Nirvana? (PDF, 3.9MB) – Wang Hui doi
- Can the Creative Subaltern Speak? Dafen Village Painters, Van Gogh, and the Politics of ‘True Art’ (PDF, 1.5MB) – Paola Voci doi
- Risk: The Hidden Power of Art Creation (PDF, 0.8MB) – Cai Qing doi
- Towards a Partisan Aesthetics: Zhou Yang, Chernyshevsky, and ‘Life’ (PDF, 0.5MB) – Benjamin Kindler doi
- A Proletarian Nora: Discussing Fan Yusu (PDF, 0.5MB) – Federico Picerni doi
- Poetry after the Future (PDF, 1.0MB) – Christian Sorace doi
- World Factory (PDF, 1.0MB) – Christopher Connery doi
- From Rebellion to Erasure: The Rise and Fall of Urban Folk Rocker Li Zhi (PDF, 0.5MB) – Jingyi Wang (Veronica) doi
Forum
- Strategic Resources and Chinese State Capital: A View from Laos (PDF, 0.8MB) – Juliet Lu doi
- From Africa to Saipan: What Happens When Chinese Construction Firms ‘Go Global’? (PDF, 1.3MB) – Aaron Halegua doi
- Varieties of Capital and Predistribution: The Foundations of Chinese Infrastructural Investment in the Caribbean (PDF, 0.8MB) – Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente doi
- Variety of Capital? Chinese Multinational Corporations in Europe (PDF, 0.4MB) – Yu Zheng and Chris Smith doi
Work of Arts
Window on Asia
- Contentious Embeddedness: Chinese State Capital and the Belt and Road Initiative in Indonesia (PDF, 0.8MB) – Angela Tritto doi
Conversations
- Disenfranchised: A Conversation with Joel Andreas (PDF, 0.5MB) – Ivan Franceschini doi
- Negotiating Inseparability in China: A Conversation with Timothy Grose (PDF, 0.5MB) – Ivan Franceschini doi
- The Power of Place: A Conversation with Mark Frazier (PDF, 0.5MB) – Ivan Franceschini doi
- Contributor Bios (PDF, 0.4MB)
- Bibliography (PDF, 0.5MB)
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