Mahjong: Art, Film, and Change in China exhibition catalog with an introduction by Julia M. White and essays by Julia F. Andrews, Kuiyi Shen, and James Quandt

Published on the occasion of the North American premiere of Mahjong, a landmark exhibition of contemporary Chinese art from the world-renowned collection of the Swiss businessman and diplomat Uli Sigg, this fully illustrated catalog features more than ninety artists, including Ai Weiwei, Huang Yan, Liu Wei, Wang Du, Weng Fen, Xu Bing, Yue Min Jun, Zhang Huan, and Zhang Xiaogang. Along with the exhibition's themes of urbanization, globalization, and alienation, China’s underground tradition and its current cultural renaissance are addressed in essays by leading Chinese art historians Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen. Film critic James Quandt elaborates these issues in an essay on internationally acclaimed film director Jia Zhangke.

$25.00, paperback
120 pages, 150 color illustrations
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2008

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