Zairong Xiang

Zairong XIANG’s research, teaching, and curatorial practices engage with cosmology and cosmopolitanism in their culturally diverse, historically specific, and conceptually promiscuous manifestations in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Nahuatl. Xiang has a cotutelle Ph.D. in comparative literature in 2013 from University of Tübingen and University of Perpignan with the European Union-funded Erasmus Mundus joint doctorate.

He teaches across the curriculum at the division of Arts and Humanities at Duke Kunshan University. Author of Queer Ancient Way: A Decolonial Exploration (punctum books), he is the editor of exhibition catalogues, journal special issues, and a film archive. He is currently completing his second book on “transdualism.” Through the concept of “shanzhai/counterfeit,” he continues multifaceted research into the artistic and intellectual exchanges in the Global South, especially between Latin America and China since the nineteenth century. Once a research fellow at the ICI-Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry and a postdoctoral fellow of the DFG Research Training Group minor cosmopolitanisms at Potsdam University, he was twice the recipients of the EU Erasmus Mundus scholarship. As a curator, he has co-curated the 2021 Guangzhou Image Triennial (2021), Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2022), and the 14th Shanghai Biennial Cosmos Cinema (2023-2024). He has curated at Para-Site Hong Kong an exhibition titled How to be Happy Together? (2024 – 2025); and is co-curating (with Denise Ryner) a research and exhibition project on Afro-Asia at ICA Philadephia (2026).

All his writings and previous lectures could be accessed here: www.xiangzairong.com

向在荣博士的研究、教学和策展实践涉及宇宙学和世界主义，其表现形式具有文化多样性、历史特殊性和概念混杂性的特点，语言包括英语、西班牙语、法语、汉语和纳瓦特尔语。向在荣博士于2013年在德国图宾根大学及法国佩比利昂大学取得比较文学博士双学位，由欧盟“伊拉斯谟世界计划”联合博士计划全额奖学金资助。

他在昆山杜克大学艺术与人文学院教授各种课程。著有《古怪之道：一种去殖民探究》(punctum books)，他还是展览目录、期刊特刊和电影档案的编辑。他目前正在完成第二本关于 “跨二元论”的著作。通过“山寨/假冒”的概念，他继续对全球南方的艺术和知识交流进行多方面的研究，尤其是自十九世纪以来拉丁美洲和中国之间的交流。他曾是柏林文化调查研究所（ICI-Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry）的研究员和波茨坦大学 DFG 小世界主义研究培训小组的博士后研究员，两次获得欧盟伊拉斯谟世界奖学金（Erasmus Mundus scholarship）。作为策展人，他曾联合策划 2021 年广州影像三年展（2021 年）、世界文化宫仪式（不死世界的葬礼）（柏林，2022 年）和第 14 届上海双年展宇宙影院（2023-2024 年）。他曾在香港 Para-Site 策划名为“如何一起快乐？”的展览（2024 – 2025 年）；并与 Denise Ryner 合作，在费城国际当代艺术中心（ICA Philadephia）共同策划了一个关于亚非领域的研究和展览项目（2026 年）。

他的所有著作和以前的讲座都可以在这里查阅：www.xiangzairong.com