Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Journal)
The Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art seeks to explore the relationship between contemporary art and Chinese cultural identity in its broadest sense. This peer-reviewed journal provides a forum for critical debate into Zhongguo dangdai yishu, the ‘avant-garde', experimental and museum-based visual art produced as part of the liberalization of culture that has taken place within mainland China since 1978. It also explores works produced by artists of non-Chinese ethnicity who live and work within Chinese contexts or whose work has a strong relationship to Chinese culture, society and history.
Principal Editor
JIANG Jiehong
Birmingham City University
joshua.jiang@bcu.ac.uk
Founding Editor
Paul GLADSTON
UNSW Sydney
The Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (JCCA) is a scholarly forum for the presentation of new research into and critical debate on or concerned with the subject of contemporary Chinese art. The term ‘contemporary Chinese art' is now used widely in Anglophone contexts to denote various forms of ‘avant-garde', experimental and museum-based visual art produced as part of the liberalization of culture that has taken place within mainland China since the confirmation of Deng Xiaoping's programme of economic and social reforms in December 1978. The comparable term in mainland China and other mandarin Chinese speaking contexts is Zhongguo dangdai yishu, which can be translated literally into English as ‘Chinese contemporary art'. Contemporary Chinese art, in all its differently located forms, is invariably characterized by a combination of images, attitudes and techniques appropriated from Western(ized) modernist and international postmodernist art with aspects of localized Chinese cultural thought and practice. It can therefore be understood to act as a locus for the translation of Westernized/international cultural thought and practice in relation to Chinese cultural contexts as well as Chinese cultural thought and practice in relation to international settings. This complex, multi-directional field of cultural translations comprises strongly contrasting visions of the significance of contemporary Chinese art. The JCCA seeks to uphold open and respectful critical debate by welcoming intellectually rigorous contributions extending across the widest possible interpretative spectrum. The JCCA is conceived as a platform for the publication of high-quality writing in accordance with the established conventions of academic discourse. However, it does not limit itself solely to contributions from academic researchers. It is recognized that others working outside the Academy, including artists, curators and critics, have important insights into the nature and significance of contemporary Chinese art. Consequently, contributions to the JCCA from cultural practitioners and professionals working outside the Academy are strongly welcomed. There is also an understanding that while the JCCA seeks to uphold the highest academic standards in terms of editorial and peer-review, it should be open to innovative forms of presentation in support of differing interpretative perspectives. The JCCA's engagement with cultural institutions and cultural practitioners outside the Academy is intended not only as a means of supporting knowledge exchange but also the development of collaborative relationships between academics, artists and curators.
Principal Editor
JIANG Jiehong
Birmingham City University
joshua.jiang@bcu.ac.uk
Founding Editor
Paul GLADSTON
UNSW Sydney
Principal Editor
JIANG Jiehong
Birmingham City University
joshua.jiang@bcu.ac.uk
Founding Editor
Paul GLADSTON
UNSW Sydney
Principal Editor
JIANG Jiehong
Birmingham City University
joshua.jiang@bcu.ac.uk
Founding Editor
Paul GLADSTON
UNSW Sydney
Archive
6.2&3: Everyday Legend: Reinventing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art6.1: Gender in Contemporary Chinese Art
5.2 &3: Chinese Art outside the Art Space
5.1: Contemporary Chinese Artists in the Globalized Art World
4.2&3: Making the New World: The Arts of China's Cultural Revolution
4.1: The World of Art Museums in China
All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.
Aims and Scope
The Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art is a scholarly forum for new research into and critical debate on the subject of contemporary Chinese art. The journal welcomes contributions that address contemporary art produced in mainland China, Hong Kong-Macau and Taiwan as well as in relation to diasporic and trans-national Chinese cultural communities world-wide. The journal also welcomes contributions that address the relationship between Chinese cultural thought and practice and contemporary art of non-Chinese origin. The journal is open to non-standard contributions such as photographic essays and conversations for publication alongside its more usual peer-reviewed content.
Areas of research and debate that the journal will explore include, but are by no means limited to:
· Contemporary art with a relationship to Chinese society, culture and history
· Art-historical and critical writing related to the reception of contemporary Chinese art
· Curatorial theory and practice related to the exhibition/display of contemporary Chinese art
· Contemporary Chinese aesthetics (as seen from Chinese and non-Chinese cultural perspectives)
· The contemporary Chinese art market
· Issues of historical importance to the development of contemporary Chinese art (e.g. cultural interaction and exchange between China and the West prior to the emergence of contemporary Chinese art)
Journal contributors will receive a free PDF copy of their final work upon publication. Print copies of the journal may also be purchased by contributors at half price.
Principal Editor
JIANG Jiehong
Birmingham City University
joshua.jiang@bcu.ac.uk
Founding Editor
Paul GLADSTON
UNSW Sydney
Editorial Board
Thomas BERGHUIS
The University of Sydney
Katie HILL
Sotheby’s Institute of Art
Ros HOLMES
University of Oxford
Birgit HOPFENER
Carleton University
Beccy KENNEDY
Manchester Metropolitan University
Franziska KOCH
University of Heidelberg
Monica MERLIN
Birmingham City University
Juliane NOTH
Free University Berlin
PAN Lu
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
TAN Chang
The Pennsylvania State University
Wenny TEO
The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Wei Hsiu TUNG
National University of Tainan
WANG Meiqin
California State University
PI Li
M+
SHAO Yiyang
Central Academy of Fine Arts
WANG Chunchen
China Central Academy of Fine Arts
ZHENG Bo
City University of Hong Kong
Peggy WANG
Bowdoin College
Frank VIGNERON
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
International Advisory Board
Julia F. ANDREWS
The Ohio State University
Chris BERRY
King’s College London
James ELKINS
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Harriet EVANS
University of Westminster
GAO Minglu
University of Pittsburgh
Paul GLADSTON
UNSW Sydney
Jonathan HARRIS
Birmingham City University
HOU Hanru
MAXXI
Jason KUO
University of Maryland
SHEN Kuiyi
University of California
Karen SMITH
OCAT Xi’an
WU Hung
University of Chicago
Nuria QUEROL
Birmingham City University
Hongwei BAO
University of Nottingham
LU Xinghua
Tongji University
Principal Editor
JIANG Jiehong
Birmingham City University
joshua.jiang@bcu.ac.uk
Founding Editor
Paul GLADSTON
UNSW Sydney
Contents
- Volume (5): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2018
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- Volume (5): Issue (2-3)
- Cover date: 2018
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- Volume (4): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2017
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- Volume (4): Issue (2&3)
- Cover date: 2017
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- Volume (3): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2016
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- Volume (3): Issue (3)
- Cover date: 2016
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- Volume (2): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2015
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- Volume (2): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2015
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- Volume (1): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2014
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- Volume (1): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2014
Principal Editor
JIANG Jiehong
Birmingham City University
joshua.jiang@bcu.ac.uk
Founding Editor
Paul GLADSTON
UNSW Sydney
