Digital and Data Humanities Summer Fellowships Cohort Archive

Monumental Ephemeral: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art

This ethnographic, feminist, visual culture project examines the social role of visual art and competing ideas of aesthetic, cultural, and market value in reform-era China. Its focus on gender produces a non-normative history of Chinese contemporary art and cultivates a differential consciousness about the shifting role of art—as ideological, institutional, and imaginative—within various configurations of power. An interactive website serves as a digital companion to a forthcoming book, providing readers with expanded multimedia research materials, including narrated slide shows with Chinese and English audio; high-resolution image galleries; documentary videos; and a searchable database of images with robust bilingual metadata.