I touched on Poly Group’s role in the repatriation of the 12 bronze zodiac heads in an essay on the increasingly complex and oftentimes bizarre relationship between art, politics, and cultural consumption in contemporary China that was recently published in the Rocky Mountain Review.
Green, Frederik. “The Twelve Chinese Zodiacs: Ai Weiwei, Jackie Chan and the Aesthetics, Politics, and Economics of Revisiting a National Wound.” The Rocky Mountain Review, volume 70.1, Summer 2016 (pp. 45-58).
Fred Green <fgreen@sfsu.edu>