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The Chineseness of Huang Yong Ping and the risks of essentialisation ,

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The artist Huang Yongping, born in China in 1954, has lived in France since May 1989 after being invited to participate in the exhibition Magiciens de la Terre. He is still perceived by most people as a Chinese artist as his work is layered with Chinese iconography and philosophical references, inspired by Taoism and Buddhism, and often appears as riddles, or "gōng'àn (公案)", the enigmatic poetry practiced by Chan masters. The fact that he does not speak French and expresses himself in Chinese further adds an aura of "inscrutability" ascribed to the Chinese language ("C'est du chinois" in French means "It's all Greek to me"). Underlying his choice of themes is a post-colonial/post-modern aim of rebalancing global contemporary art's geography through the presentation of Chinese culture as eternal and essentialist, which Huang shares with many intellectuals, and which is aligned with the Chinese government's national and foreign politics. It eschews Huang's heteroglossia, as well as the many and hybrid subtexts that inform it.
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hal-04207634 , version 1 (14-09-2023)

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Christine Vial Kayser. The Chineseness of Huang Yong Ping and the risks of essentialisation ,. Fred Dervin; Régis Machart. Intercultural communication with China. Beyond (Reverse) Essentialism and Culturalism?, Springer, pp.59 - 77, 2017, Encounters between East and West, 9789811040146. ⟨10.1007/978-981-10-4014-6_4⟩. ⟨hal-04207634⟩
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