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Launched in 2010, randian 燃点 | randian-online.com is owned and run by its editors.

We seek to promote independent cultural debate in China and to foster intellectual exchange between China and the rest of the world. This means independent commentary on art, artists, exhibitions and galleries, as well as video, architecture and design.

Published in Chinese and English, we regularly update our readers on artists, events, exhibitions, film, news, opinion, performance, projects, publications and video.

Last Updated: July 7, 2016

The (Continuing) Story of Ai—From Tragedy to Farce

Paul Gladston
Randian
In recent weeks Ai Weiwei has become embroiled, yet again, in apparent controversy.

Chinese F.D.I. in the United States

Thilo Hanemann
Randian
This breakdown from the Rhodium Group reviews the patterns, key transactions and political developments in the US-China investment relationship in Q3 2013, including reforms, employment numbers, and the effect of the U.S. government shutdown.&...

Getting Over Ai Weiwei

Paul Gladston
Randian
There are, though, significant dangers in the upholding of Ai as our sole representative/mediator of artistic resistance to authority within China. While Ai’s bluntly confrontational and often bombastic stance can be readily digested within Western...

Q&A: Shi Zhiying's "Infinite Lawn"

Christopher Moore
Randian
Shi Zhiying (b.1979; lives and works in Shanghai) is a painter known for her stark black-and-white paintings of rather uniform vistas — the wide, open sea, Zen sand gardens, blades of grass that occupy the viewer's horizons. In her latest...

Does China Need Book Art?

Iona Whittaker
Randian
“The art of the book” / books-as-art / artists’ books / “bookworks” / book-objects.... The realm loosely bounded by these terms is characteristically amorphous. Book art’s aura of intrigue and charm hinges on the intimacy associated with reading,...