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This is an artist’s slide/lecture work that looks at the exhibition history of British Chinese art(ists) from 1995 to 2010, mapping various sociopolitical and economic contexts onto cultural production and exhibition.
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CHINA NOW, “the largest festival of Chinese culture in Britain,” was launched in February 2008, with a series of high-profile events to mark the beginning of the Chinese New Year. For more discussion on China’s changing profile in the arts and its impacts on artists, critics, and cultural practitioners, see: Judy Freya Sibayan and Erika Tan (eds.) (2008), “And Now China?” Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art, 11, web PDF access: https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline/ctrlp_issue11.pdf
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Journeys West, Minories Gallery, First Site, Colchester, 1995.
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China: Journey to the East, Manchester Museum, 2010.
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The Reductivist’s Postcard Series is a series of digital works, 2008.
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Tan, E. (2018). One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Dancing in the Margins/on the Border of Oblivion. In: Thorpe, A., Yeh, D. (eds) Contesting British Chinese Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71159-1_3
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