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The Phoenix Years

The Phoenix Years

Art, Resistance, and the Making of Modern China

by Madeleine O'Dea
Hardback
Publication Date: 03/10/2017

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The riveting story of China's rise from economic ruin to global giant in the past four decades is illuminated by another, equally fascinating, narrative beneath its surface--the story of the country's emerging artistic avant-garde and the Chinese people's ongoing struggle for freedom of expression.

By following the stories of nine contemporary Chinese artists, The Phoenix Years shows how China's rise unleashed creativity, thwarted hopes, and sparked tensions between the individual and the state that continue to this day. It relates the heady years of hope and creativity in the 1980s, which ended in the disaster of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Following that tragedy comes China's meteoric economic rise, and the opportunities that emerged alongside the difficult compromises artists and others have to make to be citizens in modern China.

Foreign correspondent Madeleine O'Dea has been an eyewitness for over thirty years to the rise of China, the explosion of its contemporary art and cultural scene, and the long, ongoing struggle for free expression. The stories of these artists and their art mirror the history of their country. The Phoenix Years is vital reading for anyone interested in China today.

ISBN:
9781681775272
9781681775272
Category:
Asian history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
03-10-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pegasusbooks
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4x35.56mm
Weight:
0.56kg
Madeleine O'Dea

Madeleine O'Dea is a writer and journalist who has been covering the political, economic, and cultural life of China for the past three decades.

She worked for five years with the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra before entering journalism as the Beijing correspondent for The Australian Financial Review in the late 1980s. She covered China throughout the 1990s as a producer with ABC Television.

In 2004 she moved to Beijing and took up a position as a presenter and editor with China Radio International and later served as the arts editor for the magazine, the Beijinger. In 2010 she became the founding editor-in-chief of ARTINFO China and the Asia correspondent for Art+Auction and Modern Painters magazines. She now lives in Sydney.

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