The Art of Contemporary China

Fulfilling a need for an accessible, affordable introduction to a subject of sustained and growing significance in contemporary culture, this volume in the World of Art series redefines contemporary Chinese art in the last forty years since the end of China’s Cultural Revolution, placing it in the context of unprecedented cultural, political and urban transformation.This book offers neither an art historian’s chronological review of Chinese art in post-Mao China, nor does it join the debate of p