This publication documents the history of one singular work of Chinese artist Xu Bing, titled Phoenix.

The large-in-scale installation was first commissioned by a Chinese corporation to be put in the commercial area in Beijing. The work was created from the construction wastes left from the very construction site of the commissioning corporate party. The artist found it interesting to juxtapose the leftover of capitalist development within the capital itself. The motif of the phoenix corresponds to the idea of rebirth, which the artist saw fit to the context of this commission.

However the commissioning party was not satisfied with the project and stopped funding it. The publication documents the later development of the project, i.e. how it got collected and exhibited in various locations around the world.

This publication has an earlier edition published in 2010, which is in simplified Chinese only and does not has the information of the development of the project after 2010. The 2010 edition is also in AAA's collection.