ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

(in press) “The Hu Xian Peasant Art Exhibition” in Handbook of Socialist Exhibition Cultures, eds. Sven Spieker, Polly Savage, Bojana Videkanic, Christene d’Anca, (University of Toronto Press, 2025).

“Cultural Revolution Films and Their Production History” in Teaching Film from the People’s Republic of China, eds. Zhuoyi Wang, Emily Wilcox, Hongmei Yu, (Modern Language Association, 2024), pp. 84-99.

“The Blank Exam: Crises of Student Labour and Activism in the late Cultural Revolution Film Juelie,” in Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour, eds. Ivan Franceschini and Christian Sorace, (Verso Press, 2022)

“Amateur Art Practice and the Everyday in Socialist China,” Made in China Journal 5, no. 1 (Jan.-Apr. 2020): pp. 80-7.

BOOK REVIEWS

Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978-1985, Jennifer Dorothy Lee, author discussion in Made in China Journal 9, no. 1 (Aug. 2024).

Material Contradictions in Mao’s China, eds. Jennifer Altehenger and Denise I. Ho (University of Washington Press, 2022), reviewed in The PRC History Review, no. 64 (Feb. 2024).

TRANSLATION

“Interdimensional Communique” by Chen You-Jin, Books from Taiwan 8 (Spring 2018): pp. 34-9.

“A-Ga,” by Yang Fu-Min, Books from Taiwan 7 (Winter 2017): pp. 40-5.

“Nine Days and Nine Nights” by Yang Tu, Books from Taiwan 6 (Spring 2017): pp. 22-6.

“Mausoleums of the Kings of Chu at Xuzhou” by Li Yinde, Tomb Treasures: New Discoveries from China’s Han Dynasty, (San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2017), pp. 27-38.

“A Complete Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the World,” Matteo Ricci et al., and “A Complete Map of the World,” Ferdinand Verbiest et al., Asian Art Museum interactive website, 2016.

“Painting as Historical Witness: Xu Weixin and Documentary Realism” by Wang Lin, Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2016), pp. X-Y.

ARTIST BOOKS (AS EDITOR)

Hans Ulrich Obrist: The China Interviews, co-editor with Philip Tinari (Beijing: Office for Discourse Engineering, 2009).

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, editor (Stockholm and Beijing: Jarla Partilager and Office for Discourse Engineering).

Wu Hung on Contemporary Art, co-editor with Lee Ambrozy, Peggy Wang, and Michelle Woo (Beijing: Timezone 8).

ART CRITICISM AND COMMENTARY

“In Defense of Difficult Art at the Guggenheim’s Controversial Exhibition,” Vulture, Oct. 17. 2017. Republished on Slate.

“Socialist Art from China, Remade in Michigan,” CityLab, Feb. 21, 2018.

“Hollow Monuments,” ArtAsiaPacific 72 (Mar./Apr. 2011): pp. 63-4. Trilingual publication, translated in Chinese and Arabic by the editors.

“Fan Labour and the Rise of the Boys’ Love TV Drama in China,” with Yucong Hao, East Asia Forum Quarterly 13, No. 2 (Apr.–Jun. 2021): 17–20.

“Zhao Zhao: The Young Pretender,” The New Statesman, Oct. 19, 2012, pp. 73–4.

“The Culture Interview: Ai Weiwei,” The New Statesman, Oct. 19, pp. 60–3.

“Melodrama and Métissage: The Art of Ming Wong,” LEAP 10 (Aug.–Sept. 2011): pp. 142–9. Bilingual publication, translated into Chinese by Dai Weiping. Reprinted in Sexuality: Documents of Contemporary Art, ed. Amelia Jones (Cambridge, M.A.: The MIT Press, 2014).

“Of Theme Parks, the Self, and Shenzhen,” LEAP 5 (Oct.-Nov. 2010): pp. 70–2. Bilingual publication, translated into Chinese by the author.

“Between Signifier and Signified: The Art of Li Songhua,” Visual Production 5-6 (2007): pp. 135–9. Bilingual publication, translated into Chinese by the editors. Reprinted in Critical Moment: New Media and Installation (Shanghai: OV Gallery, 2008), pp. 48–49.

EXHIBITION REVIEWS

“Rural North China, 1947-1948,” Artforum (Mar. 2013). Published in Chinese on Artforum.com.cn, trans. Wang Danhua.

“Yung Ho Chang + FCJZ: Material-ism,” Artforum (Feb. 2013). Published in Chinese on Artforum.com.cn, trans. Wang Danhua.

“Taipei Biennial 2012,” Artforum (Dec. 2012): p. 298. Published in Chinese on Artforum.com.cn, translated by Wang Danhua.

“Hong Hao: My Things,” Artforum (Apr. 2012): p. 233. Published in Chinese on Artforum.com.cn, translated by Liang Shuhan. Reprinted in About Hong Hao (Beijing: Chambers Fine Art, 2012).

“Wu Shanzhuan and Inga Svala Thorsdottir: Kuo Xuan,” Artforum (Feb. 2012): pp. 248-9.

“Huang Liang: Paintings Beyond Yes and No,” LEAP 12 (Dec. 2011: pp. 206-7. Bilingual publication, translated in to Chinese by Yang Zi.

“Wang Wei: Propaganda Pavilion,” LEAP 10 (Oct. 2011): pp. 208–9. Bilingual publication, translated into Chinese by Chen Kuangdi.

“Zhang Peili,” Frieze 142 (Oct. 2011): pp. 255–6.

“Liu Wei,” Artforum (Sept. 2011): pp. 366–7. Published in Chinese on Artforum.com.cn, translated by Wang Danhua.

“Marius Watz: Automatic Writing,” Artforum.com, Aug. 8, 2011.

“MadeIn Company: Physique of Consciousness,” LEAP 6 (Jun. 2011): pp. 198-9. Bilingual publication, translated in Chinese by Liang Xingyi.

“Mo Yi,” ArtAsiaPacific 70 (Sep./Oct. 2010): p. 150.

“Olafur Eliasson and Ma Yansong: Facts Are Feelings,” LEAP 3 (Jun. 2010): pp. 206–7. Bilingual publication, translated into Chinese by the editors.

“Rirkrit Tiravanija: Ne Travaillez Jamais,” LEAP 2 (Apr. 2010): pp. 212–3. Bilingual publication, translated into Chinese by the editors.

etc.