{"product_id":"pekin-798-9782234064812","title":"Pékin 798","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marc Abélès\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Stock\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Stock\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeijing 798\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH TRANSLATION AVAILABLE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e798, those three numbers now indicate the most celebrated site for contemporary art in Beijing. An extensive international gallery stands there, exhibiting highly sought-after Chinese artists and attracting the curiosity of crowds of Chinese and foreign visitors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 798 is also the name of a colossal arms factory built in the 1950s by East German architects of the Bauhaus school. A model factory with its sports facilities, theatre, childcare and apartments, for an elite workforce. After its decline in the late twentieth century, avant-garde artists - drawn by its aesthetic and the low rent - took it over, devising installations and often provocative performances, to the amazement of the last few workers and the suspicious concern of the authorities. Since then the site has become official, recognised as a showcase for the \"Chinese brand\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the symbol of the Great Leap Forward to that of the big jump in financial markets, via the obsessive underground memories of the Mao years emerging through art, Marc Ab�l�s explores with an acutely attentive eye the metamorphoses of these premises and their inhabitants. In so doing, he offers an original take on the relationships between art, politics and the financial markets in China in the age of globalisation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarc Ab�l�s is an anthropologist, director of studies at the prestigious EHESS social sciences school and director of the French Interdisciplinary Institute of Anthropology of the Contemporary (CNRS-EHESS). He has written numerous works, most notably \u003ci\u003eUn ethnologue � l'Assembl�e\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eLes Nouveaux riches\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eL'�chec en politique\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003ePolitique de la survie\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eLe Spectacle du pouvoir\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and \u003ci\u003eAnthropologie de la globalisation\u003c\/i\u003e (2008).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48225203323031,"sku":"9782234064812","price":3526.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9782234064812.webp?v=1788765663","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/pekin-798-9782234064812","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}