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The extraordinary rise of China is one of the greatest global stories of recent times. However, China's development has been described as 'uneven, uncoordinated, and unsustainable', and has now reached a critical turning point. To transform itself into a successful high-income economy, China urgentl[...]

Updated and reorganized to offer the best collection of state-of-the-art readings on the role of critical theory in contemporary art, this second edition of "Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985" brings together scholarly essays, artists' statements, and art reproductions to capture the vibrancy an[...]