
In the early stages of research and investigation into Chinese traditional vernacular dwellings, scholars conducted some sporadic surveys. Liu Dunzhen, in his 1941 publication “Overview of Surveys on Ancient Architecture in Southwest China,” was the first to propose vernacular dwellings as an independent architectural type. In 1956, Liu Dunzhen published An Introduction to Chinese Residences. The earliest books on provincial vernacular dwellings in China were published between 1960 and 1962.

Esoteric Buddhist architecture; Type comparison; Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei; Cultural integration; Mandala; Vajra world

This thesis has been produced as a phased achievement under the General Program(21SKGH168) for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Chongqing Municipal Education Commission.

This paper examines Chinese feminist artist Li Xinmo’s performance artworks The Death of Xinkai River and A Ritual of Farewell as critical intervention in ecofeminist discourse within the East Asian context. Through a semiotic analysis of polluted water as artistic medium—manifested in cyanobacterial blooms, toxic odors, and corporeal immersion—the study reveals how the work deconstructs romanticized "feminine-water" metaphors to expose the structural parallels between ecological degradation and gendered violence.


Hong Chen

When the vines between picture book pages quietly trail into the soil of reality, and when watercolor-blurred constellations overlap with moonlight filtering through the canopy, we begin to hear the crisp resonance of nature colliding with fantasy. In the tranquil oasis of Bangkok’s bustling heart—Chatuchak Park—curator Huang Xiao and hand-drawn artist Luo Zihang have together woven a breathing artistic experiment: A Forest on Paper, Dreams Within Pages. This marks the second iteration of The Oneiric Series Exhibition.
Xiao Huang

Xiao Huang