New Feature on EastEast

In an essay for EastEast's current issue (NO)BORDERS, Zhu Xiaowen contributed an essay, reflecting the meaning of Chinese silks to one immigrant family’s emotional past.

Artist and writer Zhu Xiaowen is the author of Oriental Silk, a documentary and a book. They are dedicated to an eponymous emporium, the first Chinese silk importing business on the West Coast of the United States since China’s Cultural Revolution. In an essay for EastEast, Zhu Xiaowen talk about her work and the meaning of Chinese silks to one immigrant family’s emotional past.

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(NO)BORDERS

What is the function and meaning of borders? Which borders are benign and which are malign? How can we cross real and imaginary borders? Who sets the borders? Is it possible to live in a world without borders? How do humans and nonhumans live within and without borders? For our third issue we consider these vital yet tricky questions.