“The English government” political caricature by Jacques-Louis David in 1794; Delft Blue tiles from Holland, 1640-1740; “Tortures subies par le R.P. Chapdelaine martyrisé dans la province de Quang-si” illustration of the martyrdom of St. Auguste Chapdelaine in Le Monde Illustré (February 27, 1858); “An English sailor” caricature from the Second Opium War in 1857
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2018
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2018
A Qing dynasty Sengge Rinchen imperial guard standard from the Musée de l'Armée; Bronze Head of Pig designed by Giuseppe Castiglione for the Yuanmingyuan, acquired for RMB 6 million in 2003 by Stanley Ho and returned to China; Meat-shaped Stone, Qing dynasty, from the collections of the National Palace Museum Taiwan; Ming dynasty Peng kiln ceramic pillow in the shape of a baby (1271-1330) from the collections of the National Palace Museum Taiwan; “What we ought to do in China” in PUNCH, or The London Charivari (December 22, 1860)
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2018
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2018
Dog by Bamboo by Italian Jesuit missionary Giuseppe Castiglione from the collections of the Shenyang Palace Museum; One Hundred Horses in a Landscape by Giuseppe Castiglione from the collections of the National Palace Museum Taiwan; The Pine, Hawk and Glossy Ganoderma by Giuseppe Castiglione in honor of Emperor Yongzheng's birthday in 1724, from the collections of the Beijing Palace Museum; Bronze Head of Rabbit donated by François-Henri Pinault on April 26, 2013; Auspicious Roe Deer, Giuseppe Castiglione’s depiction of roe deer offered as tribute by Mongolian tribes at an autumn hunt in the 16th Year of Emperor Qianlong (1751)
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2018
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2018
Head of bronze horse of Taiwan Gokoku Jinjya; ominous baby skull; Mikado pheasant discovered by British ornithologist Walter Goodfellow in 1906; head of bronze bull of Taiwan Grand Shrine; severed bronze head of Chiang Kai-Shek; head of raw barbarian severed by cooked barbarian
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Dried flying fish in Orchid Island; cone-shaped bunker model; periodic table; Tao rattan female hat; Tao silver warrior helmet; architect Lu Yu-Jun contemplating construction of nuclear bunker for Chiang Kai-Shek on Grass Hill
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Paris cobblestones in 1968; Kamikaze headband; revolutionary red flag; hammer; slab used by students of ENSBA during Mai 68 protest (inscribed with “La Lutte Continue,” or “The struggle continues”); hoe; petrol bomb made with red wine bottle; revolutionaries’ favorite army green coat
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
American soldier resting at American Military Clubs, Taipei during Vietnam War; souvenir nail clipper and nail file for 327th Air Division at Taipei Air Station; skull in Egyptologist George Gliddon and surgeon Josiah Nott’s Types of Mankind (1854): Fig. 342 Creole Negro; lady photographed by American navy officer Sarj Bloom at New York Bar on Zhongshan North Road, Taipei in 1962
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Girls in hot springs in Beitou, Taipei photographed by Jack Birns in 1949; sulfur; illustration of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) extraction; American bald eagle
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
American cartoon in 1882 depicting John Bull as octopus; skull in Egyptologist George Gliddon and surgeon Josiah Nott’s Types of Mankind (1854): Fig. 344 Young Chimpanzee; detail of 1910 British-Japanese exhibition poster; woodcut print by Huang Rong-Can: Children in Hunger; Karl Marx monument in Chemnitz, Germany, designed by Lev Kerbel
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
American propaganda material against Japan during WWII; skull in Egyptologist George Gliddon and surgeon Josiah Nott’s Types of Mankind (1854): Fig. 340 Greek & Fig. 339 Apollo Belvedere; Australian political cartoon against Chinese immigrants in 1886: The Mongolian Octopus — His Grip on Australia
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Goat in Battle of Nomonhan; upper part of emblematic character 台 in Japanese colonial period; film camera; Russia octopus in Japanese political map of Europe and Asia in Meiji 37; skull of Peking Man at Zhoukoudian
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Brick stove for camphor distillation in Notes of Travel in Formosa by Charles W. Le Gendre; memorial facial plaster cast of Dynamit Nobel AG founder Alfred Nobel; chemical structure of nitroglycerin (C3H5N3O9); Hitler's secret weapon "Die Glocke"
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Laborer gathering camphor; three nude men as seen on back of Nobel Peace Prize medal; remaining lion-dog (komainu) in Japanese colonial period
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
The torii of revamped Kusukusu Shrine in 2016; saber for the Takasago Volunteers; ballistic face mask for the Airborne Special Service Company; rice-paper plant; Alishan pull saw; hand plane for camphor; Japanese official at 1910 Japan-British Exhibition
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017
Watercolor on paper, 56.5 x 76 cm, 2017