'For the past ten years, Cang Xin's art has always been questioning something, namely, what exactly is his art? He has done a series of performance art works, which have involved inviting people to stamp on plaster masks of his face, licking a multitude of different objects and people, changing clothes with many people of different identities, lying down in various different environments, and also his most recent works in which he depicts himself transformed into a part of various different things. It is hard to see any of this as Western-style modern art in the true sense of the term... For Cang Xin, it seems that art is not purely art, but the actions of a modern-day shaman that borrow the name of art. This gives his performance work a multi-layered quality, and blurs the boundaries of art itself. As an important representative of 1990s performance art in China, Cang Xin's performance art definitely has a strong experimental quality concerned with the relationship between body and soul.' - excerpt from essay by Zhu Qi.

The present publication features Cang Xin's works produced since 1990. With artist writings, interview by Zhang Jun, artist chronology and biography.

The book includes a mask. For viewing, please refer to the individual file "Cang Xin".