Mahjong
Subtitle: contemporary Chinese art from the Sigg Collection
By: edited by Bernhard Fibicher and Matthias Frehner ; with essays by Ai Weiwei ... [et al.].
Contributors: Fibicher, Bernhard.; Frehner, Matthias.; Ai, Weiwei.; Kunstmuseum Bern.; Hamburger Kunsthalle.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz; D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers [distributor]
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ostfildern-Ruit; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Sigg, Uli -- Art collections -- Catalogs; Art, Chinese -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Art, Chinese -- 21st century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Catalogs; Exhibitions
Other titles: Ma jiang.
Notes: Published to accompany the exhibition held at Kunstmuseum Bern, June 13-October 16, 2005, and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Autumn 2006.

Text in English and German.
Table of contents: title: The multiple predicaments and upturns of Chinese contemporary art / Ai Weiwei; title: Access to China / Uli Sigg in conversation with Matthias Frehner; title: Contemporary Chinese art and a declining culture / Li Xianting; title: Longing for paradise, negotiating with the real : looking at the Chinese art scene today / Hou Hanru; title: Between Scylla and Charybdis : the new context of Chinese contemporary art since 2000 / Pi Li; title: Contemporary Chinese art : a market report / Estelle Bories; title: Cultural partnerships, maybe more : on the reception of contemporary Chinese art in the West / Bernhard Fibicher; title: "Chineseness"; title: is there such a thing? A letter form Uli Sigg to the artists taking part in Mahjong; title: and their responses.