Art and Modernism in Socialist China: Unexplored International Encounters 1949-1979

This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China’s socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions.

The majority of chapters are based on newly available archival materials and fresh critical frameworks/concepts. By shifting the frame of interpretation from socialist realism to socialist modernity, this study reveals the plurality of the historical process of developing modernity in China, the autonomy of artistic agency, and...