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Ren Hang: Bodies Without Redemption

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Shuxia, Chen

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On 24 February 2017, photographer Ren Hang leapt to his death from a twenty-eight-floor building in Beijing. He had not yet turned thirty, but his work had already attracted considerable international attention. This essay retraces the path of Ren’s life, contextualising it within the rapidly developing field of Chinese photography. Beginning with the emergence of ‘private photography’ in China in the early 2000s, the article describes how a cultural industry made up of independent-publishing...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorShuxia, Chen
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-19T03:17:52Z
dc.date.available2020-06-19T03:17:52Z
dc.identifier.isbn9781760461980
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/205382
dc.description.abstractOn 24 February 2017, photographer Ren Hang leapt to his death from a twenty-eight-floor building in Beijing. He had not yet turned thirty, but his work had already attracted considerable international attention. This essay retraces the path of Ren’s life, contextualising it within the rapidly developing field of Chinese photography. Beginning with the emergence of ‘private photography’ in China in the early 2000s, the article describes how a cultural industry made up of independent-publishing and photo fairs has blossomed in contemporary China.
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.publisherANU Press
dc.relation.ispartofGilded Age: Made in China Yearbook 2017
dc.rightsAuthor/s retain copyright
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.titleRen Hang: Bodies Without Redemption
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.date.issued2018-04
local.publisher.urlhttps://press.anu.edu.au/
local.type.statusMetadata only
local.identifier.doi10.22459/MIC.04.2018.37
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access via publisher website
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons licence (CC BY-NC-ND; creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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