Confronted by the surprising absence of any comprehensive literature about contemporary art on the Chinese market at the turn of the millennium, I decided to produce my own teaching material for art universities, which was published in two editions by the renowned Shanghai Culture Publishing House. In the age of globalization and the disappearance of any kind of linearity of Art History, I stood clear of the conventional organization principles based on big artistic movements but chose to concentrate on the process by which artist convey their ideas.