1998 Graduated from OSAKA Prefecture University in 1998 and conducted comparative cultural research in the Institute for Anthropological Studies attaining a doctoral degree
Now Professor of the School of Journalism, and the Vice-director of the Research Centre for Visual Culture at Fudan University and conducting research into news and propaganda
Research Interests: 20th Century Art, Chinese Contemporary Documentary Photography, Visual Culture and Photographic Propaganda Research, The History of Photography, etc.
SOLO EXHIBITION
2006 Rumour and Legend, OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Wetting, OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai
2011 Rival Show : Gu Zheng, Li Gongming Taiwan Photography Exhibition, 99 Creative Center, Fine Arts College of Shanghai University, Shanghai
2010 Curators as Photographers, OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai
2008 Panoramic, OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai
FOTO · OFOTO, OFOTO Gallery, Beijing
2007 Stairway to Heaven, Bates College Museum of Art, U.S.A.
CURATORIAL WORKS
2006 Documenting China, Contemporary Photography and Social Changes, Smith College Museum of Art, U.S.A.
2005 Reviewing The City, Guangzhou International Photography Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art
Chinese Urban Documentary Photography, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, U.S.A.
2004 Documenting China, Contemporary Photography and Social Changes, Bates College Museum of Art, Maine, U.S.A. / China Institute, New York, U.S.A.
Between Reality and Memory, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, U.S.A.
2001 Living in the City, the 1st Asian Photography Biennale (Chinese Curator), Seoul, Korea
PUBLICATIONS
2010 Streets of Conception
2009 Facing Fear: Contemporary Photographers' Confession II
2008 Blocking and Penetrating - The Scene of Contemporary Chinese Photography
2007 The Sixth Face of Modernity, Contemporary Visual Culture
2006 Breathe Like You and Me, One-Century Legend of Photography
2005 A World History of Photography
2003 Expression of the City - 20th Century Urban Photography
I Will be Your Mirror: Contemporary Photographers' Confession
Maze of Self Images - Me As Artist
2002 No Truth Behind All Truth - The Practices of 20th Century Modern Photography
2001 The World History of Nude Photography
2000 Foreign Postmodernism Photography
