Catalogue published in conjunction with the artist's solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai from December 2012 to February, 2013.

Spending over twenty years in the United States since the mid 1980s, Tian Wei is in a unique position to act as a case study of how overseas Chinese artist experiments with traditional Chinese artistic practice while facing the cultural challenges in an alien culture.

'Here, the issue for Tian Wei to tackle is to convert the ways of writing in traditional Chinese calligraphy, with its own distinctive aesthetic criteria, into modern ways of writing. Tian Wei's art demonstrates the experiments and engagements of a Chinese artist at the frontline of conflicting and impacting cultures, who manages to produce a crossing culture text that blends genes from both cultures.' - from essay by Fan Dian.

Featuring works in the media of installation, ink and oil painting. With artist biography and an epilogue written by the artist.