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本画册收录了刘小东的绘画作品.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Asian Art Museum, Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, Apr. 7-Jul. 16, 2006.

The volume New England brings together a series of portraits by Liu Xiaodong of homonymous subjects. The project represents the artist?s search to portray a generation of young Chinese professionals who have moved to London to try and follow their dreams.00The subjects are portrayed in their own habitats, their private settings. They try to demonstrate well-being; the viewer notices their clothes, the accessories that surround them and the environments in which they have chosen to place themselves. This glance shows a possible way into the hidden side of the relationship between migration and integration. We are forced to question whether there is any relation that governs the connection between an individual and his surroundings.

In Liu Xiaodong's painting, "Prostitute 2," a young woman stands on a bed in disarray. Her eyes averted from the viewer, she leans, with classic contraposition, on a wall as bare as she is. Xiaodong is known for such moments--even though his figures are Asian, the artist addresses the universal theme of humanity by creating portraits, social scenes and historic moments with a resolutely contemporary slant. "Liu Xiaodong" presents a broad overview of one of China's greatest painters, and retraces his illustrious career, which evolved concurrently with an increased interest in contemporary Chinese art and in the painterly tradition. Complementing numerous reproductions of Xiaodong's post-social realist works are critical essays by esteemed art writers and critics, including Jean Marc Decrop, Jeff Kelley, Charles Merewether and Wu Hung--all of whom offer contrasting and unique views of this multifaceted artist.

In his oeuvre, Liu Xiaodong shows moments and stories from human life as well as situations and landscapes with an outstanding immediacy and extraordinary empathy. Liu Xiaodong only depicts what he sees with his own eyes, smells with his own nose, and hears with his own ears. At the beginning of each work, he spends time with the subjects in their daily lives before portraying them. This participatory dimension of his artistic practice is accompanied by journal notes and photographs. In addition, alongside his projects, he creates films that approach the various topics from the perspective of the moving image. The artist encounters the stranger with the utmost openness, so as not to succumb to the deception of clichés or preformed opinions. He is a painter of modern life who addresses the question of the human condition, as well as global issues that are directly linked to it, such as demographic shifts, environmental crisis, and economic upheaval.

Edited and with interviews by Britta Erickson, Ai Weiwei. Introduction by Charles Merewether.

This book addresses a controversial issue regarding SL-TL transfer in the translation process, namely the question as to the dominant route in English-Chinese and Chinese-English professional consecutive interpretations, respectively: the form-based processing route or meaning-based processing route. It presents a corpus-assisted product study, in which the interpreting processing patterns of culture-specific items (CSIs) are analyzed. The study reveals that the dominant route in English vs. Chinese consecutive interpreting varies under different circumstances. Four factors are proposed to account for such differences: linguistic variables (e.g., grammatical complexity of the unit), type of CSI, language direction, and extra-linguistic variables (e.g., multilateral or bilateral settings). In summary, the book systematically introduces a corpus-assisted approach to translation process research, which will benefit all readers who are interested in translation process research but cannot employ neuroscientific measures.

In the summer of 2009, Liu Xiaodong--widely considered the leading "New Generation" figurative painter in China--traveled to Yan' Guan County in Gansu Province, China, where he sought to depict the peaceful coexistence of Muslims and Christians, focusing on two families. This monograph presents his portraits of the families alongside journal excerpts and photographs.

This publication documents a month-long residency undertaken by Liu Xiaodong in Qatar between February and March 2016 for the exhibition, What About Art curated by Cai Guo-Qiang for AlRiwaq Art Space in Doha (2016).The book is presented as a diary, comprising the artist's detailed thoughts and studies of Qatar's landscape and subjects. Liu completed 9 groups of small landscaping paintings, each one selected through geographic coordinates tracing the shape of a star and a crescent in the country.The book is accompanied by a documentary film realized by Tong Weijun, a long time collaborator of Liu Xiaodong, who casts a view of the country and its people depicting the process of Liu Xiaodong's artistic creation and the challenge of a more restrict palette embracing the impact the desert and the Arab culture.Includes an exclusive DVD featuring Weijun's film.