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We’re pleased to announce the release of Artistic and Intellectual Practices in Contemporary China: China as an Issue, edited by Carol Yinghua Lu (Springer, 2025), which features a chapter by the �����Ʊ Judith Neilson Chair Professor Paul Gladston, titled ‘Somewhere (and Nowhere) Between Modernity and Tradition: Towards a Discursive Polylogue Between Differing Interpretative Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Art’.

“This edited volume is the first internationally available English translation of key lectures and essays delivered at Beijing’s Inside Out Art Museum over the past decade. The book elevates a chorus of voices from domestic and international intellectuals, artists, curators, and historians in a dialogue that reframes Chinese art from 1949 to the present.” – Springer

The chapter examines discourses surrounding the concept of ‘contemporaneity’ in relation to Chinese art, which challenge the Euro-American centric poststructuralist and postmodernist views of modernity and tradition. In his analysis, Professor Gladston reviews both international and indigenous perspectives on the significance of contemporary Chinese art, ultimately arguing for the development of new theoretical paradigms derived through the assemblage of a critical, transcultural Derridean polylogue.

This essay offers a fresh lens for analysing the interplay between tradition and modernity in contemporary Chinese art, providing readers a deeper understanding of its positioning within global artistic discourses.

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