Publications

BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

This page records completed manuscripts and publicly available texts. Where a book has not yet been formally published, publisher, ISBN and year are deliberately left blank. Nothing on this page is speculative.

Manuscripts

The following five manuscripts are complete, totalling roughly three million Chinese characters (the author’s own measure). Current status: completed manuscript, awaiting publication.

01
Intervention: Art, Symbiosis, and Place-Based Practice in China
《介入:艺术、共生与中国在地实践》 — A systematic account of place-based artistic practice in China, from community art and ecological intervention to rural projects and urban public space; includes a critical test of Western theories of participatory art and relational aesthetics against Chinese realities.
Manuscript
02
The Weight of History: Anselm Kiefer and the Rematerialisation of Contemporary Art
《历史的重量:安瑟姆·基弗与当代艺术的再物质化》 — Kiefer read against the tension between post-war German reconstruction and the dematerialisation of art; what “rematerialisation” can still mean as a critical strategy today.
Manuscript
03
The Methodological Legacy of Joseph Beuys
《博伊斯的方法论遗产》 — Beuys treated as an inheritable method rather than a style: how social sculpture survives, mutates and fails in contemporary curatorial practice, read alongside Chinese artists.
Manuscript
04
On the Failure of Contemporary Art
《当代艺术失败论》 — A direct reckoning with the institutional predicament of contemporary art: why it keeps failing in terms of social effect, and how market logic, the biennial system and critical discourse collude in that failure.
Manuscript
05
The Folded Contemporary: Non-Western Contemporaneity and the Triadic Structure of Chinese Contemporary Art
《折叠的当代——非西方同时代性与中国当代艺术的三体结构》 — Proposes a “triadic structure” — official aesthetics, market-driven internationalisation, and critical place-based practice — as the structural tension shaping Chinese contemporary art.
Manuscript
Publication data is recorded only when verifiable. Publisher, year and ISBN will be added here as each book is formally published.

Published Texts

5

Book manuscripts

37

Essays online

11

Glossary entries

13,000+

Journal followers

The essay currently online, On the Failure of Contemporary Art, can be read in the Writing column (text in Chinese). New criticism appears in the WeChat journal Yiyishu (呓艺术).

A Note on Method

Only verifiable items appear on this page. Nothing is estimated, rounded up, or decorated. Any entry that cannot be checked does not belong here.

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