In this national convulsion the arts played a strikingly large role, a process described with great care in Art in Turmoil.
Robert Fulford
“A new level of art criticism,” National Post, June 15, 2010
This is a brilliant, thorough study of art created during the disastrous decade in China’s modern history. The recent flood of publications on ... Read moreChina’s contemporary art scene make this book on the immediately preceding period necessary reading because of the polar opposite forces that brought the two periods into play.… Essential.
CHOICE
This volume compellingly illustrates that the artistic products of the CR period were anything but “artless, sterile, without depth, without truth, and without reality” (189). Moreover, present-day artistic producers and their works, as well as society at large, continue to be influenced by them.
Stefan R. Landsberger, University of Amsterdam
The China Beat
The level of scholarship throughout is high, with extensive reading in Chinese-language primary and secondary sources combined with personal experience. It is recommended reading for all students of contemporary Chinese culture and society.
Bonnie S. McDougall, University of Sydney, Australia
Pacific Affairs, Vol 84, No 3
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