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Archeologists Uncover the Oldest Ochre Workshop in East Asia

by Jasmine Liu March 7, 2022March 7, 2022

Artifacts found at the 40,000-year-old site suggest that powders of different hues and grain sizes were produced there.

Posted inFilm

The Passive, Tech-Obsessed Opening of the Winter Olympics

by Ryan Swen February 13, 2022February 12, 2022

Everything that distinguished director Zhang Yimou’s famed opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympics feels either lacking or missing altogether here.

Posted inArt

Two Artists Record the Voices of the Silk Road

by Kealey Boyd February 6, 2022February 8, 2022

The Silk Road Songbook’s polyvocal strategies to share diasporic experiences are a radical reversal of what expressions of resistance and persistence are expected to look like.

Posted inOpinion

It Is Time for International Museums to Sever Ties With China

by Rachel Spence January 4, 2022January 4, 2022

The recent atrocities mean that museums working with Chinese state-run enterprises need to think long and hard about their presence.

Posted inBooks

Ai Weiwei Plumbs His Chaotic Childhood in New Memoir

by Kealey Boyd November 7, 2021November 5, 2021

Ai Weiwei’s childhood recollections are vividly violent.

Posted inNews

Hong Kong’s Only Tiananmen Massacre Memorial Faces Removal

by Valentina Di Liscia October 18, 2021October 18, 2021

There is an official ban against the public mourning of Tiananmen Square victims in Hong Kong and mainland China.

Posted inFilm

The Industry and Leisure of the World’s Largest Middle Class

by Hrag Vartanian June 16, 2021June 19, 2021

Jessica Kingdon’s new film Ascension documents the factories, etiquette centers, and other contemporary curiosities of China.

Posted inFilm

Jia Zhangke Talks About His Quest to Document a Rapidly Disappearing China

by Jordan Cronk May 27, 2021May 27, 2021

Hyperallergic interviews Jia about Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue and finding people to testify about their experiences in rural villages over the past seven decades.

Posted inFilm

The Underrated Nonfiction Films of Jia Zhangke

by Ryan Swen May 26, 2021May 26, 2021

While the Chinese director has won acclaim for movies like A Touch of Sin and Ash Is Purest White, his documentaries are an equally vital part of his oeuvre.

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Echoes of Buddhist “Emptiness” in Contemporary Chinese Art

by Mengyun Han May 1, 2021May 6, 2021

The four artists in the exhibition “Silent Thunder” display varying degrees of engagement with Buddhism — as a faith, an aesthetic choice, a school of philosophy, or a social phenomenon.

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Jia Zhangke Looks at the Drastically Different Past and Present of Shanxi Province

by Dan Schindel April 26, 2021April 29, 2021

Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of the poster and trailer for Jia’s upcoming documentary Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue.

Posted inFilm

Observing a Changing Wuhan Along the Banks of the Yangtze

by Ren Scateni March 5, 2021February 14, 2022

Hyperallergic talks to Wuhan native Shengze Zhu about her new documentary A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces, which recently premiered at Berlinale.

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