Celebrating New Sinology

時荏苒而不留

 

Lao Shu 老樹 is the nom de plume of Liu Shuyong (劉樹勇, 1962-), a Beijing-based artist, writer, critic and professor in communications. His artistic voice is unique and personal, its tenor, whimsy and profundity evoke what for decades we have called The Other China — a cultural noosphere that is as undeniably local as it is universal.

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For more work by Lao Shu, see The Other China.

— Geremie R. Barmé
30 April 2025

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啥都沒幹

May 1st is now upon us,
the year nearly half gone.
It really feels as though
I haven’t done a thing.

— Lao Shu, Year of the Snake

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