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Frederik H. Green discusses a set of historic Chinese bronze zodiac statues that inspired an installation by Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei and a movie by filmmaker Jackie Chan. By exploring their significance as symbols of historical memory and trauma and their contemporary reincarnation as art objects located at the intersection of politics and commerce, he reveals the complex relationship between art, politics, and cultural consumption in contemporary China. Drawing upon on the work of both Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Ranciere, the author further elucidates the degree to which these works need to be understood as symptomatic of post-socialist art and cinema in contemporary China and beyond.
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