Michael Sullivan, Modern Chinese Artists. A Biographical Dictionary, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2006, 250 pp

This biographical dictionary of modern and contemporary Chinese artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is a reference work that has been keenly awaited by professionals and admirers of modern Chinese art alike. At a time when China is fascinating the world, when its contemporary artists are on show in all the biennales and major exhibitions of the planet, when the auction houses are organising special sales in New York, Hong Kong and London, it is increasingly difficult to identi..