Düsseldorf, Germany

Artist, Researcher




















The Rise of Modern China 

2018, 2023 
Artist book, HP Indigo digital press,
hand bound, double press black Printing
180 × 265 × 16mm, 200 pages
ISBN: 978-3-00-061657-0


This title is derived from the scholarly historical publication, The Rise of Modern China, first published by Oxford University Press in the United States in 1970. Originally written in English, the book was translated into Traditional Chinese and published in Hong Kong in 2001. It was published in Simplified Chinese in China in 2008. In the Simplified Chinese edition, eleven chapters, or over 200 pages, are erased.

This work republishes the removed pages from the original edition. Most of the content on these pages was eliminated, leaving only year dates, in the system of the Gregorian calendar. This work not only addresses the censorship regime of contemporary China, but is also an attempt to address historiography, and the way national histories are written.





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