Jennifer Dorothy Lee is Associate Professor of East Asian Art in the
Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago. She studies art and cultural practices in modern and
contemporary China and her research interests encompass social history,
aesthetic theory, and transnational perspectives. In addition to topics
related to mainland China, Lee’s research extends to histories of social
movements in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist
Legacies in China, 1978–1985 (University of California Press, 2024) is
her first scholarly monograph.
How do revolutions end? In Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978–1985 (University of California Press, 2024), Jennifer Dorothy Lee asks how the aesthetic and cultural projects of the socialist period should be understood in the immediate aftermath of Mao Zedong’s death. Focusing on the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, Lee argues that the activist […]
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