By Dr Shuxia Chen

Book Chapters

Chen S; Liu C-H, 2025, 'Becoming a Photographer of 1980s Taiwan: an Interview with Liu Chen-Hsiang', in Chen S; Krischer O (ed.), Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s-80s, http://dx.doi.org/10.25911/7PYK-1M70

Chen S; Krischer O, 2025, 'Photographies of 1950s–1980s Taiwan: ‘Wayfaring’ a Field in (Trans)formation', in Chen S; Krischer O (ed.), Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s-80s

Chen S; Krischer O; Yao J-C, 2025, 'Photography and Contemporary Art in 1990s Taiwan: A Conversation with Yao Jui-Chung', in Chen S; Krischer O (ed.), Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s-80s

Chen S, 2025, 'Picturing a Psychic World of 1980s Taiwan: The Photography of Lien Hui-Ling and Hou Tsung-Hui', in Chen S; Krischer O (ed.), Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s-80s

Chen S; Krischer O; Lee W-I, 2025, 'Sightlines: Taiwanese Photography Publications from the 1970s to 1980s—A Conversation with Lee Wei-I', in Chen S; Krischer O (ed.), Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s–1980s, http://dx.doi.org/10.25911/7PYK-1M70

Chen S, 2024, 'Chinese Toggles at Play: Bawan and the Cultivating Hand', in Chen S; Kim M-J (ed.), Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature, Power Publications, Sydney

Chen S, 2024, 'Chinese Toggles at Scale: Miniatures and Metaphoric Spaces', in Chen S; Kim M-J (ed.), Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature, Power Publications, Sydney

Chen S; Donnelly P, 2024, 'Introducing Chinese Culture in Miniature: a Multifaceted Examination of the Toggle', in Chen S; Kim M-J (ed.), Chinese Toggles Culture in Miniature, Power Publication, Sydney

Chen S; Gu F, 2024, 'Jade Toggles and Carving in the Qing Dynasty', in Chen S; Kim M-J (ed.), Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature, Power Publications, Sydney

Chen S; Carter EA; Leung L; Swarbrick B; Harrison T; Kim M-J; Freeman M; Donnelly P, 2024, 'Material Matters: the Scientific Analysis of Chinese Toggles', in Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature, Power Publications, Sydney

Chen S, 2022, 'A Home for Photography Learning: the Friday Salon, 1977-1980', in Chen S (ed.), A Home for Photography Learning: the Friday Salon, 1977-1980, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, Shanghai

Chen S, 2021, 'Lindy Lee', in Stephen A (ed.), Light and Darkness Late Modernism and the JW Power Collection, Power Publications

Chen S, 2018, 'Ren Hang: Bodies Without Redemption', in Gilded Age: Made In China Year Book 2017, ANU Press, Canberra, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/MIC.04.2018.37

Chen S, 2017, 'Chinese Photography', in Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, Routledge, UK, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781135000356-REMO24-1

Chen S, 2016, 'Authentically Socialist: a window on a Communist utopia’', in PLA Picture Pub: Long Live the Glorious ‘May Seventh Directive’, Errata Editions, New York

Chen S, 2015, 'Looking Backward: Chinese Art in 2014', in Shared Destiny: China Story Year Book 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/CSY.11.2015

Edited Books

Chen S; Krischer O, (ed.), 2025, Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s–1980s, Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, Canberra, http://dx.doi.org/10.25911/7PYK-1M70

Chen S, (ed.), 2024, A Home for Photography Learning: the Friday Salon, 1977–1980, Shanghai Fine Arts Publishing House (上海书画出版社), Shanghai

Chen S; Kim M-J, (ed.), 2024, Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature, Power Publications, Sydney

Journal articles

Chen S, 2024, 'Tracing Chinese-Australian Histories: a Conversation between Cyrus Tang, John Young and Shuxia Chen', MUSE

Chen S, 2023, 'Picturing a Lost Tradition', MUSE

Chen S, 2023, 'Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature—a Chau Chak Wing Museum and Powerhouse Museum Project', TAASA Review

Chen S, 2022, 'Sentient Paper at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney', TAASA Review

Chen S, 2022, 'The Power of Paper', MUSE

Krischer O; Chen S, 2022, 'Wayfaring: Picturing Self and Society at the end of Taiwan's Martial Law', TAASA Review, 31, pp. 12 - 13, https://taasa.org.au/taasa-review/?ReviewUUID=46b53ad1-8bd4-46d2-8fdf-52e260b73fdf

Chen S, 2020, 'Chau Chak Wing Museum’s Asian Collection: the China Gallery and Its Inaugural Exhibition Auspicious', TAASA Review

Chen S, 2020, 'Auspicious beings in Chinese Art', MUSE

Chen S, 2020, 'Photography Institutions Burgeoning in China', Trans-Asia Photography Review, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0010.215

Chen S, 2019, 'A Home for Photography Learning: the Friday Salon, 1977-1980', Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art

Chen S; Zhou D; Shi Z, 2019, 'Photographic Praxis in China, 1930s-1980s: A conversation with Chen Shuxia, Shi Zhimin, and Zhou Dengyan about Shi Shaohua and the Friday Salon', Trans-Asia Photography Review, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0009.206

Chen S, 2017, 'Departing from Socialist Realism: the April Photo Society, 1979-1981', Trans-Asia Photography Review, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0008.103

Chen S, 2015, 'Manipulation as Art: Photographs by Xu Zhuo, 1979–1981', Trans-Asia Photography Review, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0006.103

Chen S, 2010, 'Edge of elsewhere', Artforum International

Chen S, 2010, 'The 17th Biennale of Sydney', Artforum International

Chen S, 2010, 'Wang Jianwei: the great politics of human interaction', Realtime

Chen S, 2008, 'Julian Schnabel', Artforum International

Chen S, 2008, 'Roland Fischer', Artforum International

Conference Presentations

Chen S, 2024, 'Telling Chinese Australian Histories through Art Objects and Practices', presented at Northern Gateways: Chinese Heritage and History in Northern Australia, the 9th Chinese Heritage in Northern Australia Incorporated Conference, Chung Wah Society’s NT Chinese Museum, Darwin, 20 September 2024 - 23 September 2024

Chen S, 2024, 'Photography, Photocopying, and Lianhuanhua: The Early Works of Wang Youshen, 1985-1990', presented at Historical Frames, Current Dialogue: Multidisciplinary Symposium on Photography Studies in Asia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 05 April 2024 - 06 April 2024

Chen S, 2023, 'Aestheticising the Great Northern Wilderness: Printmaking of the Heilongjiang Construction Corps in mid-1970s China', presented at Chinese Studies Association of Australia, The University of Sydney, 07 December 2023 - 09 December 2023

Chen S, 2023, 'Hedda Morrison's Photographs and Exhibition Design', presented at University Museums and Collections, International Council of Museums, Chau Chak Wing Museum, the University of Sydney, 29 August 2023 - 01 September 2023

Chen S, 2021, 'Picturing a Psychic World of 1980s Taiwan', presented at Remembering Taiwan’s Martial Law Conference

Chen S, 2020, 'Within and Without: Di Yuancang and Introduction of Western Photography to Socialist China, 1949-1979', presented at College Art Association, Chicago

Chen S, 2019, 'The Aura of Reproduction: When Photography Met Photocopier in 1980s China', presented at College Art Association, New York

Chen S, 2018, 'The Birth of a Liupai: the Fission Group, 1986-1988', presented at AAANZ, Melbourne

Chen S, 2017, 'Learning from Home: the Friday Salon, 1977-1980', presented at Centre for Chinese Visual Art 10th Annual Conference, Birmingham City University, UK

Chen S, 2014, 'Photographic Encounters: Photographs of Lois Conner and Her Journeys to the Reforming China', presented at AAANZ, Launceston

Chen S, 2014, 'The Human Self and Breaking from “the Mass”: April Photo Society 1979-1981', presented at American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, New York

Curatorial Outputs

Chen S, 2024, The trace is not a presence ..., exhibited at: , 23 August 2024 - 14 September 2025, https://www.sydney.edu.au/museum/whats-on/exhibitions/the-trace-is-not-a-presence.html

Chen S; Kim M-J, 2023, Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature, exhibited at: Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, 07 April 2023 - 04 August 2024, https://www.sydney.edu.au/museum/whats-on/exhibitions/chinese-toggles--culture-in-miniature.html

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