Friendship in Art – Fou Lei and Huang Binhong

Claire Roberts is a curator and historian of Chinese art. She is a research fellow in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University.

This is a work of great originality which opens readers' eyes to the importance of crossing conventional boundaries when discussing and interpreting major events and trends in recent Chinese art and literature. The erudite and subtle treatment of this complex relationship reveals truths not only in art and literature, but also in understanding China's wider search for a political and cultural identity. -- John Minford, head of the Asian Studies' China Centre, The Australian National University