Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera is the first major book to explore the full range of Tseng Kwong Chi’s groundbreaking photography and performance art. Active during the 1980s, Tseng used the camera as both a creative tool and a stage, producing powerful images that blended humor, politics, and questions of identity. This richly illustrated volume includes over 100 of his works, spanning from the late 1970s through the late 1980s. It highlights his most famous series, East Meets West, in which Tseng poses in a “Mao suit” at iconic landmarks across the world, as well as lesser-known photographs and rare archival materials from his assignments for the SoHo Weekly News. The book also features intimate portraits of his close friends and fellow artists—Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Kenny Scharf—capturing the vibrant and rebellious spirit of the downtown New York art scene.