The Shanghai Papers

"Better City, Better
Life?" is the motto of the next World Exposition, which will take place in
Shanghai in 2010, and it is also central to the 2008 Shanghai Biennial. The
Biennial's theme is China's increasing urbanization, the rapid growth of ever
larger numbers of big cities, and the socio-cultural revolutions that accompany
this development. The curators of the Biennial will focus on people and the
specific circumstances of their lives in this dynamic, urban environment.

Accompanying the Shanghai Biennial, this volume features texts and
materials on urbanization and the problems closely linked to it: migration,
identity, and globalization. The book also contains statements from all 612 of
the participating artists on this complex of themes and the works they are
showing.

Exhibition schedule: Shanghai
Biennale, September 9-November 16,2008