A capstone essay written for my favorite class, Methods of Art History, during my sophomore year of college. The "complexity and hybridity of Chinese modernity" still fascinates me.

The latest issue of People Weekly dedicated a great space to Zhu Xinjian. In memory, he was my dad’s close friend, my childhood friend Zhu Zhu’s old man, and an eccentric uncle who scribbles weird things, but to be honest, there were barely other intersections we came across in life.