This thirteen volume work presents the first comprehensive study of underground culture during China's Cultural Revolution, focusing on the Wuming (No Name) painting collective that formed spontaneously in the early 1970s during the darkest years of the Cultural Revolution and its coercive aftermath. For nearly a decade, these artists met regularly to paint, discuss literature and philosophy, resisting orthodoxy and indoctrination through persistent creation of alternative identities. They produced thousands of paintings and held three underground exhibitions in 1974, 1979 and 1981, marking a distinctive counter-culture that has long been obscured. To date there has been no archive, catalogue, or textual data available to historians and art scholars. Each of these bilingual books provides a catalogue of major works and autobiographical essays by individual artists, augmented with a variety of primary historical materials. These volumes open up an important new area of research for modern Chinese art history and cultural studies of Chinese modernity and avant garde resistance to state oppression.

Vol. 1 Du Xia
Vol. 2 Li Shan
Vol. 3 Liu Shi
Vol. 4 Ma Kelu
Vol. 5 Shi Zhenyu
Vol. 6 Tian Shuying
Vol. 7 Wang Aihe
Vol. 8 Wei Hai
Vol. 9 Yang Yushu
Vol. 10 Zhang Wei
Vol. 11 Zhao Wenliang
Vol. 12 Zheng Zigang
Vol. 13 Zheng Ziyan

Each volume includes an introduction by the editor, artist statement and biography.