Paul Gladston provides a critical mapping of ideas and practices that have shaped the development of contemporary Chinese art; not only those relating to the specialist concerns of artists, curators and critics, but in addition the wider cultural, economic, and political conditions of present-day artistic production and reception. He shows how combinations of ideas and practices bind contemporary Chinese art?as a consequence of artistic complicity and/or resistance?to structures of power and state not just within but also outside the Peoples’ Republic of China. While the principal focus is on art produced by artists from mainland China, and includes painting, film, video, photography, and performance, it also discusses contemporary art made by artists from Taiwan and Hong Kong-Macau as well others belonging to diasporic Chinese communities. Unraveling the complexities of politics, artistic practice, and Chinese culture, Contemporary Chinese Art is an essential companion for readers interested in contemporary art or Chinese culture, history, or politics.