Pagodas adorn parks and botanical gardens across the West, but their heritage tells a story of aristocracy and Oriental colonialism, as Yuxing Chen discovered after swapping Shanghai for London
Tag: China
A trip to Shanghai allowed Chloé Milos Azzopardi to open her mind – and image-making – to the fictions and interconnectedness of the natural world
Shanghai-based artist boihugo questions the cultural power dynamics and social hegemonies in the context of…
31 October 2022
Based in Tokyo, Chinese photographer Wang Lu employs a chameleon-like approach to the medium, exploring subjects ranging from personal history to migration and cultural identity
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In February 2014, Chinese photographer Xiaoxiao Xu captured the festival over three weeks, travelling from…
25 April 2022
Empty Nest is a delicate telling of the changing roles and relations in a family influenced by China’s one-child policy
Young’s latest project attempts to illustrate the pain of homophobia, and the anxiety of existing in a society where fundamental human rights are in constant jeopardy
In The Land of Promises, Lefèvre revisits her own history, and the histories of others whose lives were implicated by China’s one-child policy
The first major exhibition of the new-wave Chinese artist opens in Manhattan’s recently opened photography museum tomorrow