Gifted by the artist to the present owner
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, exh. cat., Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1998, p. 193
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bern, 2005, p. 158 (titled as To Raise the Water Level in a Pond)
Sheldon Lu, Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics, Honolulu, 2007, pp. 79, 88
Yilmaz Dziewior, Roselee Goldberg and Robert Storr, Zhang Huan, New York, 2009, p. 56, 158 (another example illustrated, p. 56)
Lily Chumley, Creativity Class: Art School and Culture Work in Postsocialist China, Princeton, 2016, p. 104
Madeleine O'Dea, The Phoenix Years, New York, 2017, p. 194
Gerda Cammaer, Blake Fitzpatrick, Bruno Lessard, eds., Critical Distance in Documentary Media, Toronto, 2018, p. 71 (titled as To Raise the Level of a Fishpond)
Mary Wiseman, A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China, London, 2020, p. 96
Meiqin Wang, ed., Socially Engaged Public Art in East Asia: Space, Place, and Community in Action, Wilmington, 2022, p. 245
