This volume is comprised primarily of the contents of Chinese-art.com, an online magazine started in 1997 and brings together images, essays, interviews, rountable discussions, eyewitness accounts and biographies published on the web in 2000. It's timely and diverse "insider" views are those of Chinese art critics living and working in China, but also include scholars outside the China context. To such a broad and diverse compilation of material, professor Wu Hung brings both an "insider" point of view and an international sensibility. His careful editing and organization of the material, along with the six introductory essays he wrote for this volume, make the book understandable and enjoyable to both the art scholar and the art enthusiast.

About the Author
About the Editor - Wu Hung received his B. A. and M. A. in art history from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and obtained his Ph. D. in art history and anthropology from Harvard University. In 1987 he began to teach art history at Harvard, where he was promoted to full professor. He is now the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Chinese Art History at the University of Chicago.

A scholar well-known for his work on traditional Chinese art, Wu Hung has published books and articles on contemporary Chinese art and have organized many exhibitions of this art. His recent curatorial undertakings include Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century (1999) and Canceled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China (2000). The catalogues he wrote for these two exhibitions provide in-depth analyses of the recent development of experimental Chinese art. Currently he is the chief curator of the forthcoming First Guangzhou Triennial.

Keywords: Chinese Art at the Crossroads: Between Past and Future, Between East and West, Books, Wu Hung, Art, Art & Art Instruction, History - Asian