Shanghai, long considered Mainland China’s most cosmopolitan metropolis, has today reemerged as a global center with a booming culture industry and flourishing contemporary art scene. This panel brings together leading scholars and practitioners of Chinese art, theater, and film to discuss the rapidly developing cultural climate of China’s largest city and chief financial capital. Fudan University professor, photographer and curator, Gu Zheng, independent Shanghai-based curator, Wang Jun, Fellow in Chinese Media at Rice University, Aynne Kokas, UNC assistant professor of performance studies and playwright, Zhuang Jiayun, and UO assistant professor of contemporary Asian art, Jenny Lin, offer insight into the exciting and fraught terrain of Shanghai’s contemporary visual culture, and its relationship to globalization.

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Portland author Nicole Mones will read from her new forthcoming book about the golden years of Shanghai. She is best known for her acclaimed novels Lost in Translation, A Cup of Light, and The Last Chinese Chef, which have been translated into seventeen foreign languages. For many years she wrote about Chinese cuisine for Gourmet Magazine. Her nonfiction writing on China has been published in the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post.