As a special project of the Asia Society Triennial, the artists Xu Bing and Sun Xun have created new works to respond to a rare nineteenth-century official copy of the Declaration of Independence. Xu Bing used a copy of The Analects by Confucius, a text that inspired the nation’s founders as they crafted the Declaration, to make a new work entitled Silkworm Book: The Analects of Confucius (2019) that comments on the fragility of such manifestos. For his response to the Declaration, Sun Xun created a folding album entitled July Coming Soon (2019).