The Phoenix Years
eBook - ePub

The Phoenix Years

  1. 360 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Phoenix Years

About this book

By following the stories of nine contemporary Chinese artists, The Phoenix Years shows how China's rise unleashed creativity, thwarted hopes, and sparked tensions between the individual and the state that continue to this day. It relates the heady years of hope and creativity in the 1980s, which ended in the disaster of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Following that tragedy comes China's meteoric economic rise, and the opportunities that emerged alongside the difficult compromises artists and others have to make to be citizens in modern China.Foreign correspondent Madeleine O'Dea has been an eyewitness for over thirty years to the rise of China, the explosion of its contemporary art and cultural scene, and the long, ongoing struggle for free expression. The stories of these artists and their art mirror the history of their country. The Phoenix Years is vital reading for anyone interested in China today.

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Information

Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781681775883
Topic
Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. A note on Chinese names
  5. One. Beijing 1986
  6. Two. I do not believe!
  7. Three. The Stars
  8. Four. Very heaven
  9. Five. A terrible beauty
  10. Six. Nothing to my name
  11. Seven. Whose Utopia?
  12. Eight. Beijing welcomes you!
  13. Nine. Isn’t something missing?
  14. Ten. Amnesia and memory
  15. Eleven. The people and the republic
  16. Dramatis personae
  17. Timeline
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. Notes
  20. Illustrations
  21. Index
  22. Copyright