Winnie Wong

向深圳学习:中国改革开放时期从经济特区到模范城市的试验

Winnie Wong

Mary Ann O'Donnell

Jonathan Bach

2020

Publisher: Hai Tian Press Shenzhen

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Van Gogh On Demand: China and the Readymade

Winnie Wong

2014

In a manufacturing metropolis in south China lies Dafen, an urban village that famously houses thousands of workers who paint van Goghs, Da Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces for the world market, producing an astonishing five million paintings a year. To write about work and life in Dafen, Winnie Wong infiltrated this world, first investigating the work of conceptual artists who made projects there; then working as a dealer; apprenticing as a painter; surveying wholesalers and retailers in Europe, East Asia and North America; establishing relationships with local leaders; and...

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positions: asia critique: Reconsidering the 2006 MIT Visualizing Cultures Controversy

Winnie Wong

2015

This special issue of positions: asia critique takes a look back at the MIT "Visualizing Cultures" controversy of 2006. Rather than frame the controversy as Chinese student censorship of US scholarship, contributors turn their attention to a broad interrogation of wartime imagery and the representation of violence, student activism and image-driven nationalism in cyberspace, digital pedagogy and the impact of the Internet on knowledge production. Essays examine the crisscrossing context of digital content with a critically balanced mindset and question the responsibility...

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Thresholds: Portability

Winnie Wong

2007

Winnie Wong

Thresholds: MIT, 2007

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Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City

Mary Ann O'Donnell

Winnie Wong

Jonathan Bach

2017

This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China’s contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for economic reform into a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy. The first of China’s special economic zones, Shenzhen is today a UNESCO City of Design and the hub of China’s emerging technology industries.

Bringing China studies into dialogue with urban studies, the contributors explore how the...