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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Bishan Commune and the practice of socially engaged art in rural China
  name:
    name part: Corlin, Mai
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: chi
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
  abstract: This book is concerned with socially engaged art projects in the Chinese countryside, with the artists and intellectuals who are involved, the villagers they meet and the local authorities with whom they negotiate. In recent years an increasing number of urban artists have turned towards the countryside in an attempt to revive rural areas perceived to be in a crisis. The vantage point of this book is the Bishan Commune. In 2010, Ou Ning drafted a notebook entitled Bishan Commune: How to Start Your Own Utopia. The notebook presents a utopian ideal of life based on anarchist Peter Kropotkin's idea of mutual aid. In 2011 the Commune was established in Bishan Village in Anhui Province. The main questions of this book thus revolve around how an anarchist, utopian community unfolds to the backdrop of the political, social and historical landscape of rural China, or more directly: How do you start your own utopia in the Chinese countryside?
  table of contents: 1. Introduction : Radical Rural Intellectuals -- 2. Fields of Socially Engaged Art -- 3. Imagining the Commune -- 4. The Great Leap Into Utopia -- 5. Trojan Horses or the Artist as Realtor -- 6. "Whose Villiage? -- 7. Conclusion : The end of Utopia? -- Epilogue : Guanxi Aesthetics or the State as Artistic Director
  note: Mai Corlin.
  note: In Chinese and English.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc-an
  subject:
    topic: Utopias
    geographic: China
    geographic: Bishan Xiang (Anhui Sheng)
  subject:
    topic: Rural development
    geographic: China
    geographic: Bishan Xiang (Anhui Sheng)
  classification: HX811 .C67 2020
  identifier: 9789811557941
  identifier: 9811557942
  identifier: 9789811557958
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 200430
    record change date: 20250318214851.8
    record identifier: in00004347692
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng