ArtAsiaPacific No.15, 1997

Commentary

21 PIGS MIGHT FLY Traditions/Tensions and the Asia-Pacific Triennial – Julie Ewington

25 BRAVE NEW FACES The Traditions/Tensions exhibition – Alice Yang

28 FAST FORWARD Traditions/Tensions conference report – Alexandra Munroe

30 PRESENT ENCOUNTERS The Asia-Pacific Triennial – Masahiro Ushiroshoji

32 WE ARE FAMILY The Asia-Pacific Triennial – Joanna Lee

34 NERVOUS CULTURE The Pacific Component of the Asia-Pacific Triennial – Diane Losche

36 EXPERIENCING TAIPIE The 1996 Taipei Fine Arts Biennial – Sue Rowley

39 BEIJING REPORT Gallery and exhibition report – Susan Dewar

42 TRADITION AND INNOVATION An exhibition of 20th-century Chinese painting – David Clarke

Essays

44 HONG KONG The view from abroad – Hou Hanru

48 THE LONG ROAD BACK HOME Hong Kong in 1997 and beyond – Oscar Ho

54 MADE IN TAIWAN Images of Hong Kong – J.J. Shih

60 CHINATOWN Ken Lum and Chen Zhen interviewed – Hou Hanru

66 IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER The art of Wang Jin and Feng Jiali – Susan Dewar

74 FRINGE-DWELLERS Down and out in the Yuan Ming Yuan artists’ village – Sang Ye

78 A BEIJING SCREENSAVER The computer art of Feng Mengbo – Geremie R. Barmé

Reviews

Jonathan Goodman on Zhang Hongto; Claire Roberts on Wang Zhiyuan; Nicholas Jose on Fang Lijun; Gloria Davis on Geremie R. Barmé’s Shades of Mao: The posthumous cult of the great leader; Francesca Dal Lago on Michael Sullivan’s Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China.