{"title":"Queer eye for Chinese women: Locating queer spaces in Shitou’s film Women Fifty Minutes","authors":"Hongwei Bao","doi":"10.1386/JCCA.6.1.77_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JCCA.6.1.77_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a critical analysis of Chinese lesbian artist, filmmaker and activist Shitou’s 2006 film Women Fifty Minutes ( nüren wushi fenzhong ). Focusing on the representation of queer women in the film, I discern the existence and conditions of queer subjectivities and spaces in a postsocialist Chinese context. This article aims to disentangle different discourses of women and feminism in contemporary China as represented in the film and, in so doing, unravel the importance of sexuality in understanding feminism and women’s experiences. By looking at Chinese women through queer eyes, Shitou’s film brings queer public space into existence through representational and activist strategies; it also introduces sexuality and queerness into feminist debates.","PeriodicalId":40969,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44702793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender (still) matters in Chinese contemporary art","authors":"Monica Merlin","doi":"10.1386/JCCA.6.1.5_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JCCA.6.1.5_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40969,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44027629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Soft archives: Motherhood and daughterhood in post-socialist China","authors":"Zoe Meng Jiang","doi":"10.1386/JCCA.6.1.35_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JCCA.6.1.35_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40969,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42755054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Troubling the gaze: The writers and zhiyin of ‘Women’s art’","authors":"Y. Low","doi":"10.1386/jcca.6.1.97_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca.6.1.97_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40969,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/jcca.6.1.97_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45637296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a spatial history of contemporary art in China","authors":"Pauline J. Yao","doi":"10.1386/JCCA.5.2-3.117_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JCCA.5.2-3.117_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40969,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43666388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Independent spaces to the street: Participatory art in Shanghai","authors":"Julie Chun","doi":"10.1386/jcca.5.2-3.269_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca.5.2-3.269_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40969,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42458553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chinese art outside the art space","authors":"Jiang Jiehong","doi":"10.1386/JCCA.5.2-3.111_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JCCA.5.2-3.111_2","url":null,"abstract":"The notion of ‘exhibition’ originated from the West, in the context of our discussion, usually as an organized presentation and display of a selection of items in a space of art museum, gallery or institution that open to the public. Generally acknowledged, perhaps one of the earliest examples was first Paris Salon held in the Palais-Royal in 1667, and by 1699, the exhibition’s growth prompted a move to the Grand Galerie of the Louvre. Salon thus became the public space for art in the modern sense, inviting aesthetic judgments. Soon after, in the eighteenth century, art exhibitions proliferated throughout Europe and in Britain, most notably, there has been the annual summer show of London’s Royal Academy which was first unveiled in 1769. Since the second half of the nineteenth century, European cities and states began to sponsor large international art exhibitions to build up and secure their identities as cultural centres, including the Venice Biennale, founded in 1895, as one of the most famous and enduring examples (Altshuler 2008: 12-3). From the 1990s on, today, we have seen biennials and triennials established as instruments of economic and cultural development worldwide, whilst art has been exhibited mostly in the art museum and gallery spaces.","PeriodicalId":40969,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/JCCA.5.2-3.111_2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42556822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(In)visible ink: Outsiders at the Yaji, the ink installations of Bingyi and Tao Aimin","authors":"Luise Guest","doi":"10.1386/JCCA.5.2-3.175_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JCCA.5.2-3.175_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40969,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46675155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two approaches to socially engaged art with the Hong Kong Filipino community","authors":"F. Vigneron","doi":"10.1386/JCCA.5.2-3.131_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JCCA.5.2-3.131_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40969,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41463246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Socially engaged art and the affects of Chinese rural community: A case study of ‘Someone Nearby’","authors":"Yanhua Zhou","doi":"10.1386/JCCA.5.2-3.215_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JCCA.5.2-3.215_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40969,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41509247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}