‘Although the artistic environment is extremely complex in China today, with striking regional differences and many different styles, some more traditional, others more Western, jostling for prominence, a new completely Chinese sensibility has taken hold in the last few years. It has enabled Chinese artists, for the first time in a century, to face up to international criteria with quiet self-confidence- no longer the idiosyncratic chroniclers of a desperate and mysterious passage in history, but men and women willing and able to complete on their own terms as artists of the world.’ - Michael Goedhuis. This catalogue features a number of leading artists from China at the start of a new century, whose works can be seen to represent the growing confidence both in China’s role in the modern world and in the art world. Short biographies of the artists are included.