As part of the supporting events programme for this year’s Liverpool Biennial festival was the talk ‘A New Chineseness’ facilitated … More
Tag: Cultural Revolution
24 hrs in London (Pt III) – Hong Ling: A Retrospective at Brunei Gallery, SOAS
Part three of my series of blog posts on 24 hours in London last month (lately, I’m constantly playing catch … More
Photography: ‘Chinese Life in Sheffield’ by Gemma Thorpe
On International Women’s Day (8 March 2016), I received an email from photographer and filmmaker Gemma Thorpe about her current and … More
Film: ‘Collecting Insanity’ – Fan Jianchuan’s Museum
A short filmic interlude for a Wednesday watch. ‘Collecting Insanity’ (2014) by filmmaker Joshua Frank… “Everyone knows that you shouldn’t touch … More
Weekend Reads #4
Weekend Reads continues again (read parts one to three here)…a round-up of articles and words that I’ve come across in relation to … More
‘Metadocuments’ by Craig Clunas
Yesterday afternoon, I attended a lecture at the very beautiful John Rylands Library in Manchester by academic and Chinese art world … More
Hero Artists Studios – Taopu
Wednesday, my usual PhD research day, was spent at artists’ studios in the Taopu district of Shanghai. It is one … More
Rachel Marsden's Words 