title: Landscape Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing
author: Shelagh Vainker
description: <span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Shelagh Vainker</span><span> is the Curator for Chinese Art at the </span><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ashmolean Museum,</span></span><span> Oxford, UK.</span></span><br /><br /><span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Xu Bing</span><span> is a Chinese-born artist, resident in the United States since 1990. He currently resides in Beijing, where he serves as the vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.</span></span>
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  [Title Page](title-page.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Copyright](copyright.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Author’s Mailing List](authors-mailing-list.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Also by Miranda Honfleur](also-by-miranda-honfleur.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Dedication](dedication.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [A Letter From the Author](a-letter-from-the-author.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Acknowledgments](acknowledgments.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Map of Silen and Surrounding Lands](map-of-silen-and-surrounding-lands.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Contents](contents.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Chapter 1](chapter-001.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Chapter 2](chapter-002.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Chapter 3](chapter-003.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Chapter 4](chapter-004.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Chapter 5](chapter-005.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Chapter 6](chapter-006.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Chapter 7](chapter-007.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Chapter 8](chapter-008.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Chapter 9](chapter-009.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Chapter 10](chapter-010.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Chapter 11](chapter-011.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Chapter 12](chapter