The complexity and confusion of styles and intentions are true characters of modern Chinese art. Just as the definition of 'modernity' was subjected to reinterpretations at various points in China's recent history, current notions of the canon are likewise subjected to change, because the canonicity of art, which rests no more on intrinsic aesthetic value than on external facto...(展开全部)

The complexity and confusion of styles and intentions are true characters of modern Chinese art. Just as the definition of 'modernity' was subjected to reinterpretations at various points in China's recent history, current notions of the canon are likewise subjected to change, because the canonicity of art, which rests no more on intrinsic aesthetic value than on external facto...(展开全部)

Modern Art introduces us to one of the most dynamic and exciting periods of art, from Impressionism in the nineteenth century to Destination Art in twenty-first.

Joshua A. Fogel is professor of history at York University, Toronto, and a specialist in the history of cultural and political ties between China and Japan in the modern era.

The modern histories of China and Japan are inexorably intertwined. Their relationship is perhaps most obvious in the fields of political, economic, and military history, but it is no less true in cultural and art history. Yet the traffic in artistic practices and practitioners between China and Japan remains an understudied field. In this volume, an international group of scho...(展开全部)

The modern histories of China and Japan are inexorably intertwined. Their relationship is perhaps most obvious in the fields of political, economic, and military history, but it is no less true in cultural and art history. Yet the traffic in artistic practices and practitioners between China and Japan remains an understudied field. In this volume, an international group of scho...(展开全部)

This is a comparative study of the politics of Chinese cultural identity facing China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US-Chinese, and the Chinese diaspora in the West. The author challenges current discussions of hybridity and nationalism by contrasting the experiences of Taiwan, Hong Kong and US-Chinese with those of China and the Chinese diaspora.

This work offers the first systematic analysis of writings on modern Chinese history by historians in China from the early twentieth century to the present. It traces the construction of major interpretive schemes, the evolution of dominant historical narratives, and the unfolding of debates on the most controversial issues in different periods. Placing history-writing in the c...(展开全部)