China's cultural scene since 2000

How did the first Chinese electronic music festival run without electricity? Why does a Hutong-house, preserved in its original form, have to be painted light grey for the Olympics? To answer these and other questions more than thirty authors look back at the development from subculture to cultural industry over the last years in China's cultural scene. The authors describing the Chinese artists of various fields (visual art, movie, music and multimedia, literature and theatre, architecture, photography) are themselves actively involved in the Chinese cultural scene.


By looking back at the past ten years, they point out possible developments after the financial crisis and the „year of memory 2009". The crucial question is, how the individual artist treats the issue of memory as identification process of the artist himself, of a part of the Chinese art scene and therefore of the community as a whole.

Date of publication: 14.9.2010

CHF 39.- / € 26,-, plus CHF 5.- / € 3,- shipping costs

224 pages, more than 50 pictures in color 
15,5 × 22,5 cm,

ISBN 978-3-85616-514-7

Editor: CULTURESCAPES

Guest editor: KATHARINA SCHNEIDER-ROOS and STEFANIE THIEDIG

Co-editor: JURRIAAN COOIMAN

Supported by the Christoph Merian publishing house.