The San Francisco Art Institute (IN)VISIBLE CITIES: REALITY AND FANTASY IN WORK OF CAO FEI AND YANG YONGLIANG Yu, Weiying Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ·········································································································1 CHAPTER 1 ················································································································18 World Building and the Asian Cityscape 1.1 From Invisible Cities to Cities on the Move 1.2 Asian Cities: “Entropy” and “Ruin” CHAPTER 2 ················································································································46 Kaleidoscopic and Telescopic Visions: The Work of Cao Fei and Yang Yongliang 2.1 The Kaleidoscopic Vision: La Town 2.2 The Telescopic Vision: The Day of Perpetual Night CHAPTER 3 ················································································································73 Visible and Invisible Globalized Chinese Urban Space 3.1 La Town and Hiroshima (explorations of the concept of catastrophe or aftermath in urban context) 3.2 The Day of Perpetual Night and Chinese Landscape Painting (the notion of cultural changes regarding the role of nature in Chinese mind) CONCLUSION ············································································································94 Bibliography ··············································································································101