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Can a writer be shy? Can a work that drinks from the living source of the self be the work of a shy one? Can we imagine a timid person publishing a confession where he declares himself to the world, timid? To answer yes to these questions is to open the way to the paradox that is the subject of this study: for Philippe Vilain, literature is the discourse by which the shy man returns like a glove the passion that prevents him from speaking; what can not be said, so you’ll have to write it. By undertaking an investigation into shyness (an intimate passion if any), by trying to describe it, to define it, by making an inventory of everything it deprives — Philippe Vilain questions the secret of his art: a classical writing, a restrained style, a sober and tense prose are his way of inscribing shyness at the heart of the work, of radiating the modesty of the language in the shamelessness of the book.
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Sinologist Gregory B. Lee stated in his 2018 book China imagined that, "For several centuries now, European and American sinologists and novelists have imagined their own China, and have narrated and imposed China according to this imaginary. Until now, this Western imaginary of China has been globally dominant". By mimicry, Chinese intellectuals also imagined the West through books translated in the 80s of the 20th century. When they left China, they were confronted not only with the West they imagined, but also with the China imagined by Westerners. We will now examine whether contemporary Chinese artists considered as "others" express themselves, create, through the same prism that we might describe as a mirror effect.
Keywords: art contemporain chinois, Chinese contemporary art, Huang Yongping, Huang Yongping, Chen Zhen, Chen Zhen
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