The Question of Modernity in Chinese Art: Self-Awareness and the Four Major Ideologies

This landmark volume offers a long-overdue, theoretical framework for understanding modern Chinese art within the broader problem of cultural modernity. Developed through the author's "Road of Modern Chinese Art" research project (est. 1999), it seeks to articulate a theoretical discourse grounded in China's own historical and intellectual conditions.

Reassessing dominant paradigms of modernity, the study introduces a "future-oriented perspective in modernity discourse" shaped by the profo...