Zhang Xiao: Community Fire

(Hardback, Bilingual edition)

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A vivid portrait of the centuries-old Chinese Spring Festival by a leading contemporary Chinese photographer

Dynamic vision of cultural shifts occurring in rural Chinese communities in the digital age

Publication coincides with a solo exhibition at Harvard University in spring 2023

Features texts in English and Chinese

Author Bio

Zhang Xiao (born in Yantai city, Shandong Province, China, 1981) graduated from the department of architecture and design at Yantai University in 2005.He was a photojournalist for ChongqingMorning Post from 2005 to 2009. He won the Prix HSBC pour laPhotographie in 2011, the Three Shadows Photography Award in2010, and the Hou Dengke Photography Award in 2009. Zhanghas participated in several solo and group exhibitions, includingat the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; FotostiftungSchweiz, Winterthur, Switzerland; Lianzhou Photography Museum,Guangdong Province, China; Shanghai Center of Photography;Muse du Quai Branly, Paris; and A4 Art Museum in ChengduCity, Sichuan Province. His books include Shanxi (2013), Coastline(2014), They (2014), The River (2017) and A Hometown (2021).Zhang currently lives and works in Chengdu. He is the 2018 winnerof the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from the PeabodyMuseum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Ou Ning(born in Suixi, Guangdong province, China, 1969)is the director of the documentaries San Yuan Li (2003)and Meishi Street (2006). He was chief curator of the Shenzhenand Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (2009);jury member of 8th Benesse Prize at the 53rd Venice Biennale(2009); member of the Asian Art Council at the Guggenheim, NewYork (2011); founding chief editor of the literary journal Chutzpah!(20102014); founder of the Bishan Project (20112016); visitingprofessor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture,Planning, and Preservation (20162017); and senior research fellowof the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, Boston(20192022). His most recent book is Utopia in Practice: BishanProject and Rural Reconstruction (2020). Ilisa Barbashis curator of visual anthropology at Harvard Universitys Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. She is codirector of the filmsIn and Out of Africa(1992) andSweetgrass (2009). Barbash is the author ofWhere the Roads All End: Photography and Anthropology in the Kalahari(2016), which was awarded the John Collier Jr. Award for Still Photography.