TY - BOOK AU - Tsao,Hsingyuan AU - Ames,Roger T. TI - Xu Bing and contemporary Chinese art: cultural and philosophical reflections T2 - SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture SN - 9781438437910 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - N7349.X8 X8 2011 U1 - 709.51/09051 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Xu, Bing, KW - Art, Chinese KW - 20th century KW - Themes, motives KW - 21st century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; A dilemma in contemporary Chinese art: an introduction / Tsao Hsingyuan and Roger T. Ames -- Reading and misreading: double entendre in locally oriented logos / Tsao Hsingyuan -- Reading Xu Bing's Book from the sky: a case study in the making of meaning / Roger T. Ames -- Seriousness, playfulness, and a religious reading of Tianshu / Kuan-Hung Chen -- Making natural languages in contemporary Chinese art / Richard Vinograd -- The living word: Xu Bing and the art of Chan word play / April Liu -- Transmission of meanings: a study of Shen wai shen (Body outside body) by Xu Bing / Kazuko Kameda-Madar -- The space between: cross-cultural encounters in contemporary Chinese art / Jerome Silbergeld -- Appendix. Bibliography on Xu Bing and related issues in contemporary Chinese art / Zoe Li -- List of important events between 1979 and 2005 / Susan Chang ER -