Mary Bittner Wiseman. M.A. in Philosophy, Harvard University. Ph.D. in Philosophy, Columbia University. Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y. Author of The Ecstases of Roland Barthes (Routledge), she has published on aesthetics, ethics, and feminism.Liu Yuedi Ph.D. in Philosophy. Associate Professor at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Delegate at large of International Association for Aesthetics, Secretary-General of Chinese Society for Aesthetics. Author of The History of Analytic Aesthetics, he has published on culture, aesthetics and art.

• PART ONEHERE AND NOWCrisisSubversive Strategies in Chinese Avant-garde ArtMary Bittner Wiseman Political Pop Art and the crisis of originalityYi YingContemporary Art in China: ‘Anxiety of Influence’ and the Creative Triumph of Cai Guo-QiangLaurie Adams Working It OutImage-Fabrication and Contemporary Photography in ChinaWang Chunchen Chinese Contemporary Art: From De-Chineseness to Re-ChinesenessLiu YuediChinese without Chineseness: Chinese Contemporary Art from Cultural Symbol to International StylePeng FengCalligraphic Expression and Contemporary Chinese Art: Xu Bing’s pioneer experimentLiu YuediThrough the BodyThe Political Body in Chinese ArtCurtis L. CarterGendered Bodies in Contemporary Chinese ArtMary Bittner WisemanThe Second Sex and Contemporary Chinese Women’s Art: A Case Study on Chen Lingyang’s WorkHe JinliExpression Extreme and History Trauma in Women Body Art in China: The Case of He ChengyaoEva Kit Wah ManPART TWOHISTORY AND GEOGRAPHYClassicalMetaphysics in Chinese ArtAbraham KaplanWater and Stone: On the Role of Expression in Chinese ArtMary Bittner WisemanNatural Beauty and Literati Strokes: Shi Tao, Merleau-Ponty and the Practice of PaintingDavid A. BrubakerPaths to the Middle: A Tentative Theory for Chinese Contemporary ArtPeng FengRecent HistoryCurrent State of Chinese ArtWang ChunchenAvant-garde in Chinese ArtCurtis L. CarterPost-colonial and Contemporary Art Trends in TaiwanPan FanExperimental Painting and Painting Theories in Colonial HongKong (1940-1980): Reflections on Cultural IdentityEva Kit Wah ManEast and WestThe Shape of Artistic Pasts: East and WestArthur C. DantoHow to Misunderstand Chinese Art: Seven ExamplesDavid CarrierArt and Globalization: Then and NowNoel CarrollConcept, Body and Nature: After the End of Art and the Rebirth of Chinese AestheticsLiu Yuedi