The "other" in the works of contemporary Chinese artists in France: Chen Zhen and Huang Yongping

Abstract

temp: Sinologist Gregory B. Lee stated in his 2018 book China imagined that, "For several centuries now, European and American sinologists and novelists have imagined their own China, and have narrated and imposed China according to this imaginary. Until now, this Western imaginary of China has been globally dominant.[1] By mimicry, Chinese intellectuals also imagined the West through books translated in the 80s of the 20th century. When they left China, they were confronted not only with the West they imagined, but also with the China imagined by Westerners. We will now examine whether contemporary Chinese artists considered as "others" express themselves, create, through the same prism that we might describe as a mirror effect.