Zairong Xiang

Zairong Xiang is an assistant professor of comparative literature and the associate director of art at Duke Kunshan University in Suzhou, China. He is the author of Queer Ancient Ways: A Decolonial Exploration (punctum books, 2018). He was the chief curator of the "minor cosmopolitan weekend" at the HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2018), and the editor of its catalogue minor cosmopolitan: Thinking Art, Politics, and the Universe Together Otherwise (Diaphanes, 2020). As a member of the...See more

Zairong Xiang is an assistant professor of comparative literature and the associate director of art at Duke Kunshan University in Suzhou, China. He is the author of Queer Ancient Ways: A Decolonial Exploration (punctum books, 2018). He was the chief curator of the "minor cosmopolitan weekend" at the HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2018), and the editor of its catalogue minor cosmopolitan: Thinking Art, Politics, and the Universe Together Otherwise (Diaphanes, 2020). As a member of the Hyperimage Group, he has co-curated the 2021 Guangzhou Image Triennial. He is working on two projects, both dealing with the concepts of "transdualism" and "counterfeit" in the Global South, especially Latin America and China. He was a fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (2014-16) and a postdoctoral fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Research Training Group called "Minor Cosmopolitanisms" at the Universität Potsdam (2016-20). See less