Histories and Archives of Chinese Contemporary Art: New and Disparate Elements

The simultaneous publication of three different types of books on Chinese contemporary art confronts readers firstly to a series of booklets on Shanghai that combine personal accounts, analyses and documentation from 1998 to the present, written and published by Davide Quadrio; secondly to a comprehensive historical essay spanning the period from 1989 to 2016, written by Lü Peng, an institutionally well-integrated art historian who is attempting to build a properly Chinese general history; an..