- Titles People's Republic of Zoo (Proper)
- Artist Sun Xun, Chinese, born 1980
- Medium single channel video animation with sound, 7 minutes 49 seconds
- Dimensions Dimensions variable
- Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by the Collectors Circle for Contemporary Art, 2011.34
- Work Type video
- Classification Time-based works
- Signature Two-page certificate of authenticity [see inscriptions]
- Inscription 2-page certificate of authenticity. Page 1: (Recto): stamped in red ink, at upper left: [one half of Pi Animation Studio stamp (circular seal with studio insignia)] ; dated in black type, at lower center: February 4, 2012. Page 2: (Recto): stamped in red ink, at upper left: [other half of Pi Animation Studio stamp (circular seal with studio insignia)] ; stamped in red ink, at center right: [full Pi Animation Studio stamp (circular seal)] ; handsigned and dated in black ink, at center and lower center: [artist's signature and 2012 February 6 in Chinese characters]. Digital BETACAM tape: (Recto): handsigned and dated in black ink, at lower right: [artist's signature 2012 February 6 in Chinese characters].
- Provenance With ShanghART Gallery; purchased December 2011 through (Meulensteen Gallery, New York) by the Birmingham Museum of Art