This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding more about the transformations occurring in Chinese art today. This wide-ranging collection of texts and images, by artists, critics and curators, reveals the tensions, fervour and zeal of one of the most exciting art scenes anywhere in the world. The book’s essays, interviews and debates provide varied, lively and well-informed insights from a diverse range of individuals at the forefront of Chinese contemporary art.

This wide-ranging collection of texts, interviews, discussions and images, previously published on the Chinese-art.com website in 2001, embraces a disparate group of voices and offers local and global perspectives on the art scenes of mainland China and its diaspora.