Chin-tao Wu
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Chin-tao Wu specializes in contemporary art and culture, with particular emphasis on their sociological and political aspects. She has contributed to the New Left Review, the New Statesman, Third Text, and the Journal of Visual Culture. Her latest book, Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention since the 1980s, published by Verso in 2002, has been translated into Turkish (2005), Portuguese (2006), and Spanish (2007). She speaks Taiwanese, Mandarin Chinese and English, having been educated in London as well as Taipei and resident in both for extended periods. She has experience in university teaching as well as in journalism, and is now a full-time academic researcher. Amongst her current projects is a quantitative study of biennials in relation to globalization, and she is also preparing a wide-ranging study of contemporary art and haute-couture.
Her present post is Assistant Research Fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow of University College London.
