The book contains a range of articles and conversations which offer critically searching insights into the development of contemporary Chinese art both within China and internationally. It brings together selected critical writings, previously published as well as unpublished, by Paul Gladston, one of the foremost international scholars of contemporary Chinese art. The articles are based on extensive first-hand research much of which was carried out during an extended residence in China between 2005 and 2010. In contrast to many other writers on the subject of contemporary Chinese art,...

This edited collection brings together essays that share in a critical attention to visual culture as a means of representing, contributing to and/or intervening with discursive struggles and territorial conflicts currently taking place at and across the outward-facing and internal borders of the People’s Republic of China. Elucidated by the essays collected here for the first time is a constellation of what might be described as visual culture wars comprising resistances on numerous fronts not only to the growing power and expansiveness of the Chinese state but also the residues of a once...