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Zairong Xiang

Duke Kunshan University, China

Zairong XIANG’s research, teaching, and curatorial practices engage with cosmology
and cosmopolitanism in their culturally diverse, historically specific, and conceptually
promiscuous manifestations in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Nahuatl. He
teaches literature and art at Duke Kunshan University, and was co-curator of the 2021
Guangzhou Image Triennial, Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) at Haus der
Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and the 14 th Shanghai Biennial Cosmos Cinema (2023-
2024), among many other projects. He is working on two exhibition projects
respectively in Hong Kong and Philadephia. Author of Queer Ancient Way: A
Decolonial Exploration (punctum books), he is the editor of exhibition catalogues,
journal special issues, and a film archive. He is currently completing his second book on
“transdualism.” Through the concept of “shanzhai/counterfeit,” he continues a
multifaceted reearch into the artsitic and intellectual exchanges in the Global South,
especially between Latin America and China since the nineteenth century. Once a
reserarch fellow at the ICI-Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry and a postdoctoral fellow
of the DFG Research Training Group minor cosmopolitanisms at Potsdam University,
he was twice the recipients of the EU Erasmus Mundus scholarship. All his writings and
previous lectures could be accessed here: www.xiangzairong.com

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