Qianqian Xing

Qianqian writes in both Chinese and English and works efficiently in multi-cultural environments. Since 2004, she has been working with international visual artists, designers and architects, and her scope expanded to contemporary dancers in 2012. She has created cultural exchange events and published numerous articles about the creative works of the various artists mentioned above. She was a senior editor for VISION magazine while living in Beijing, and she is now an independent writer living in Los Angeles. During the last three years, she has had close interaction, affording her detailed observations of dancers, and has been writing about them for magazines and other media. Her passion for critiquing, writing and publishing artistic works stems from her in depth humanities and social studies. She believes that a professional critic must be rooted in socially developed context, local interaction and a healthy sense of the artists' background. In short, culture is the root of art.