"Too much newness, too much to buy, too much height, too much taste, too much money--too much everything has resulted from the new market economy in China. Current trends in Chinese life depart drastically from traditional Confucian ideals of balance; where once human beings were in harmony with nature, now their tastes and aesthetics are constructed and determined via artificial and synthesized systems, by city planning and architecture ..."
ZhengGuogu Cross Back And Forth Quickly by ZhengGuogu, Hou Hanru, Hu Fang, Chen Tong Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2004 by Timezone 8/Shangh Art ISBN-13: 978-962-86388-5-7, ISBN: 962-86388-5-8
"Staged and composite photographs, digitally manipulated Japanese porn films, scribbled ink paintings, photo-collages on rice paper, installations of toys and model motorcycles, performances, cast-iron Coke bottle sculptures, tanks made of bread and then stir-fried...Zheng Guogu does it all in this disorienting, glossy artist's book. Essays by Hou Hanru, Chen Tong, Hu Fang, et al. Paperback, 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 384 pgs / 300 color."
"Zheng Guogu belongs to a generation of Chinese artists who grew up with Coca-Cola, Kung Fu movies, pop music, and video games--a generation different from the one that came of age in the uncertainty of the Cultural Revolution of the 70s, and the optimistic utopia of the 80s. It shows. Zheng has produced an astounding heavily conceptual, multimedia oeuvre that includes staged and composite photographs, digitally manipulated Japanese porn ..."