Crafting Modern China: the Revival of Yixing Pottery
Li, Chunmei (2013) Crafting Modern China: the Revival of Yixing Pottery. [MRP]
Item Type: | MRP |
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Creators: | Li, Chunmei |
Abstract: | The revival of Chinese pottery tradition from Yixing (I-hsing) after the Chinese Cultural Revolution raises a series of questions on cultural production, history, and cultural identity in post-Mao China. The study of Yixing pottery reveals China’s transformation from a mode of production dominated by communist ideology and planned economy to a new era marked by a type of hybrid ideological and economic system. This essay argues that Yixing pottery is a politicized artifact, in which the politics of value and the politics of identity arise from the commodification and ideological appropriation of revitalized traditions. Yixing pottery is culturally informed; socially practiced; politically charged; and commercially contaminated. The contemporary cultural significance of Yixing pottery reveals an irony: the destruction of traditional culture in Mao’s red China is redefined by the reconstruction of socialist culture in China’s rise as a new world power. |
Date: | May 2013 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Chinese pottery, Yixing (I-hsing), cultural production, post-Mao China, planned economy, politicized artifact, contemporary cultural significance |
Divisions: | Graduate Studies > Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories |
Date Deposited: | 17 Dec 2014 21:11 |
Last Modified: | 21 Dec 2021 00:45 |
URI: | https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/178 |
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