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Publications

2016

"Claiming Spaces for Urban Art Images in Beijing and Shanghai." In Jeffrey I. Ross (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art. New York: Routledge, 357–371.

2016

"Contesting Transcultural Trends: Emerging Self-Identities and Urban Art Images in Hong Kong." In Jeffrey I. Ross (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art. New York: Routledge, 372–387.

2016

Enemmän kuin puoli taivasta. Kiinalainen nainen historiassa, yhteiskunnassa ja kulttuurissa. [More than Half the Sky. Chinese Women in History, Society and Culture.] Airaksinen, Sinkkonen, and Valjakka (eds.). Helsinki: Art House. Contents in English (pdf)

2016

"Naistaiteilijat ja globaalin nykytaiteen haasteet." [Female artists and the challenges of global contemporary art scene."] in Airaksinen, Sinkkonen and Valjakka (eds.) Enemmän kuin puoli taivasta. Kiinalainen nainen historiassa, yhteiskunnassa ja kulttuurissa. [More than Half the Sky. Chinese Women in History, Society and Culture.] Helsinki: Art House, 347383.

2016

"Jalkojen sitominen." ["Foot binding."] in Airaksinen, Sinkkonen and Valjakka (eds.) Enemmän kuin puoli taivasta. Kiinalainen nainen historiassa, yhteiskunnassa ja kulttuurissa. [More than Half the Sky. Chinese Women in History, Society and Culture.] Helsinki: Art House, 71–75.

2016

"Jiang Qing: valkokankaalta vallan syövereihin." ["Jiang Qing: from silver screen to the depths of power."] in Airaksinen, Sinkkonen and Valjakka (eds.) Enemmän kuin puoli taivasta. Kiinalainen nainen historiassa, yhteiskunnassa ja kulttuurissa. [More than Half the Sky. Chinese Women in History, Society and Culture.] Helsinki: Art House, 95–99.

2016

"Urbaani taide ja naiset." ["Urban art and women."] in Airaksinen, Sinkkonen and Valjakka (eds.) Enemmän kuin puoli taivasta. Kiinalainen nainen historiassa, yhteiskunnassa ja kulttuurissa. [More than Half the Sky. Chinese Women in History, Society and Culture.] Helsinki: Art House, 383–387.

2016

"Toiminnan naisia." ["Women of agency."] by Airaksinen, Sinkkonen and Valjakka in Airaksinen, Sinkkonen and Valjakka (eds.) Enemmän kuin puoli taivasta. Kiinalainen nainen historiassa, yhteiskunnassa ja kulttuurissa. [More than Half the Sky. Chinese Women in History, Society and Culture.] Helsinki: Art House, 11–34.

2015

"Urbanized Interfaces: Chinese Visual Arts In The Age Of Urbanization" by Meiqin Wang and Minna Valjakka. Asia Pacific Memo.

2015

"Urban Art Images and the Concerns of Mainlandization in Hong Kong." In Gregory Bracken (ed.) Asian Cities: Colonial to Global. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 95–122.

2015

"Negotiated Spatial Politics: Site-responsive Urban Art Images in Mainland China." China Information. Special issue: Visual Arts and Urbanization, 29(2) 2015, 253–281. Guest editors Meiqin Wang and Minna Valjakka.

2015

"Urbanized Interfaces: Visual Arts in Chinese Cities" by Meiqin Wang and Minna Valjakka.
China Information. Special issue: Visual Arts and Urbanization, 29(2) 2015, 139–153. Guest editors  Meiqin Wang and Minna Valjakka.

2015

"Renegotiating the Traumatizing Experiences: Re-Employing Images of Mao in Contemporary Art." In Joseph Y.S. Cheng (ed.) The Use of Mao and the Chongqing Model. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.

2014

"Kaid Ashton: Conflating Streets, Arts, and Charity." In Pedro Soares Neves and Daniela V. de Freitas Simões (eds.) Lisbon Street Art & Urban Creativity 2014 International Conference  Conference Proceedings. Lisbon 2014, 149–157.

2014

"Contesting the Levels of Il/legality of Urban Art Images in China." In Review of Culture 45: 96–118. The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) of the Macao S.A.R Government.

2012

"Kiinalaisen urbaanin taiteen kulttuurisidonnaisuus." ["The cultural contextuality of Chinese urban art."] In Tahiti. The academic online publication of Art History in Finland. 1/2012.


2012

"Kiinalaisen taiteen arvottamisen lähtökohtia." ["Starting points and changes in the evaluation of Chinese Art."] In Lohikäärmeen vuosi. [The Year of the Dragon.], pp. 1333. Joensuu Art Museum.

2012

"Kiinalaisen nykytaiteen matka kansainväliseen menestykseen." Osa 2 ["The journey of Chinese contemporary art to international fame." Part 2] In Kiina sanoin ja kuvin. [China by words and images.] Finland–China association. 2/2012, pp. 7–12.

2012

"Kiinalaisen nykytaiteen matka kansainväliseen menestykseen." Osa 1 ["The journey of Chinese contemporary art to international fame." Part 1] In Kiina sanoin ja kuvin. [China by words and images.] Finland–China association. 1/2012, pp. 1620.

2011

"Yang Fudongin video- ja valokuvataide: epätodellisuuden tuolla puolen?" ["The video and photographic art of Yang Fudong: beyond the unreality?"] In Taide & Design. [Art & Design.] 6/2011, pp. 5663.

2011

“Graffiti in China – Chinese Graffiti?” In The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies. Special issue: Art, Artists and Art Worlds in Asia. 29(1) 2011, pp. 6191.


2011

"Parodying Mao's Image: Caricaturing in Contemporary Chinese Art." In Asian and African Studies. Special issue: Chinese Art between Tradition and Modernity. 15(1), May 2011, pp. 87112 (pdf) Published by the Department of Asian and African Studies, University of Ljubljana.

2011

Many Faces of Mao Zedong. Doctoral dissertation. Helsinki: Unigrafia Helsinki University Print

2010

“Performance Art at Tian’anmen.” In Kontur 20 - Visualising Asian Modernity. Available online and in print. Vol. 12 No. 20, pp. 19–28. Published by the Department of History and Area Studies, University of Aarhus.

2010

“Spray Painting in China.” In Dianmo. Nr. 10 September 2010, pp. 410.

2009

“Kiinalainen nykytaide, Mao ja Tiananmen.” [“Chinese Contemporary Art, Mao and Tian’anmen.”]. In Pekingin Kevät 1989, [Beijing Spring 1989], eds. Raisa Asikainen, Teemu Naarajärvi & Juha Vuori. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, pp. 120121.

2008

“Inciting mental terror as effective governmental control: Chinese propaganda posters during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).” In Terror and the Arts: Artistic, Literary, and Political Interpretations of Violence from Dostoyevsky to Abu Ghraib, ed. by Matti Hyvärinen and Liza Muszynski. Palgrave Macmillian, pp. 164183.

2008

”Idän Hollywood – elokuvan alkuvaiheet Shanghaissa.” [“Hollywood of the East – Initial Steps of Cinema in Shanghai.”]. In WiderScreen 1/2008.

2007

Kuvia Kiinasta / Pieces of China. Exhibition catalogue. Museum Centre Vapriikki, Tampere. Finland.

2007

”Sydämen runoilija Zhang Xiaogang.” [“Zhang Xiaogang: A Poet from His Heart.”] in Taide 5/2007. Helsinki: Kustannus Oy Taide, pp. 2429.

2003

”Jälkisanat.” [”Postscript.”] In Zhaon perheen orpo. [The Zhao Family Orphan] Libretto. Helsinki: Lasipalatsi, pp. 6769.

2003

”Kiinalaisen draaman klassikko: Zhaon perheen orpo.” [”The Classic of Chinese Drama: The Zhao Family Orphan.”] In Kiina Sanoin ja Kuvin. 4/2003, pp. 1011.

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