The NYRB China Archive
01.06.18![](https://www.chinafile.com/sites/default/files/styles/system/public/assets/images/article/system/qiu_zhijie_map-sys.jpg?itok=As04wM0-)
‘The Biggest Taboo’
from New York Review of Books
One of China’s most influential artists is forty-eight-year-old Qiu Zhijie. A native of southern China’s Fujian province, Qiu studied art in the eastern city of Hangzhou before moving to Beijing in 1994 to pursue a career as a contemporary artist...