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Biografisk notat
Hentyle Yapp is Assistant Professor of Art and Public Policy at New York University and coeditor of Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value.
“How do China and Chinese artists become legible in contemporary global circuits? In this informative study, Hentyle Yapp handles this question and its vast ideological ramifications by gauging late-capitalist art market aesthetics, academic discursive politics, and transnational multimedia dynamics. Most commendably, he asks us not to lose sight of the preemptive liberalist biases advanced by many Western accounts of non-Western cultures." - Rey Chow, author of (Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture) “Hentyle Yapp's deconstruction of the dialectic of authoritarian regulation and artistic resistance in Chinese art is certain to attract critical attention from scholars in numerous fields. <i>Minor China</i> is an outstanding book that sets a new standard for analyzing non-Western art and politics otherwise.” - David L. Eng, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania "In <i>Minor China</i>, Hentyle Yapp establishes a novel framework for analyzing contemporary Chinese art with a focus on its place in the global art market since 1989." - Stephanie Kays (ARLIS/NA) "The book presents a provocative and theoretically informed study that opens meaningful conversations about a relational experience between the minor and the major. It makes a fresh and significant contribution to the fields of contemporary performance and visual culture, global Chinese studies, Asian American studies, and critical theory at large." - Ying Xiao (Journal of Asian Studies) "[<i>Minor China</i>] present[s] insightful theoretical and historical perspectives that engage critically with Marxist thought and post-structuralist discourse, as well as gender and queer studies, with contemporary art from greater China and its diasporas. . . and provide[s] readers and scholars of art history, critical theory, institutional critique, gender and queer studies, visual as well as Asian studies, with timely food for thought. . . ." - Franziska Koch (Art History) "The reach of <i>Minor China </i>goes beyond China and Sinophone studies. The book’s deployment of Asian American and transnational critiques makes it a relevant title for many in the field of Asian American studies, especially those interested in the discussions of aesthetics. . . ." - Kai Hang Cheang (Journal of Asian American Studies)
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. We're Going to Party Like It's 1989: Proper China, Interdisciplinarity, and the Global Art Market 37
2. All Look Same: Ai Weiwei's Multitudes, Comrade Aesthetics, and Racial Anger in a Time of Inclusion 70
3. Minoring the Universal: Affect and the Molecular in Yan Xing's Performances and Liu Ding, Carol Lu, and Su Wei's Curation as Art Practice 103
4. Minor Agencies: Reformulating Demystification and Performativity through the Works of Zhang Huan, He Chengyao and Cao Fei 141
5. Tout-Monde and the Minor: The Cinematic and Theatrical Chinese Woman in Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves 176
Afterword. For Those Minor in and to China: Protests in Hong Kong and Samson Young in Venice 208
Notes 223
Bibliography 245
Index 261
“How do China and Chinese artists become legible in contemporary global circuits? In this informative study, Hentyle Yapp handles this question and its vast ideological ramifications by gauging late-capitalist art market aesthetics, academic discursive politics, and transnational multimedia dynamics. Most commendably, he asks us not to lose sight of the preemptive liberalist biases advanced by many Western accounts of non-Western cultures." - Rey Chow, author of (Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture) “Hentyle Yapp's deconstruction of the dialectic of authoritarian regulation and artistic resistance in Chinese art is certain to attract critical attention from scholars in numerous fields. <i>Minor China</i> is an outstanding book that sets a new standard for analyzing non-Western art and politics otherwise.” - David L. Eng, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania "In <i>Minor China</i>, Hentyle Yapp establishes a novel framework for analyzing contemporary Chinese art with a focus on its place in the global art market since 1989." - Stephanie Kays (ARLIS/NA) "The book presents a provocative and theoretically informed study that opens meaningful conversations about a relational experience between the minor and the major. It makes a fresh and significant contribution to the fields of contemporary performance and visual culture, global Chinese studies, Asian American studies, and critical theory at large." - Ying Xiao (Journal of Asian Studies) "[<i>Minor China</i>] present[s] insightful theoretical and historical perspectives that engage critically with Marxist thought and post-structuralist discourse, as well as gender and queer studies, with contemporary art from greater China and its diasporas. . . and provide[s] readers and scholars of art history, critical theory, institutional critique, gender and queer studies, visual as well as Asian studies, with timely food for thought. . . ." - Franziska Koch (Art History) "The reach of <i>Minor China </i>goes beyond China and Sinophone studies. The book’s deployment of Asian American and transnational critiques makes it a relevant title for many in the field of Asian American studies, especially those interested in the discussions of aesthetics. . . ." - Kai Hang Cheang (Journal of Asian American Studies)
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. We're Going to Party Like It's 1989: Proper China, Interdisciplinarity, and the Global Art Market 37
2. All Look Same: Ai Weiwei's Multitudes, Comrade Aesthetics, and Racial Anger in a Time of Inclusion 70
3. Minoring the Universal: Affect and the Molecular in Yan Xing's Performances and Liu Ding, Carol Lu, and Su Wei's Curation as Art Practice 103
4. Minor Agencies: Reformulating Demystification and Performativity through the Works of Zhang Huan, He Chengyao and Cao Fei 141
5. Tout-Monde and the Minor: The Cinematic and Theatrical Chinese Woman in Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves 176
Afterword. For Those Minor in and to China: Protests in Hong Kong and Samson Young in Venice 208
Notes 223
Bibliography 245
Index 261