Explores how Xu Bing and other contemporary Chinese artists use Western ideas within a Chinese cultural discourse.

Hsingyuan Tsao is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of British Columbia. Roger T. Ames is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and editor of Philosophy East and West. His many books include Confucian Cultures of Authority (coedited with Peter D. Hershock) and the translation (with D. C. Lau) of the classic Chinese work Sun Bin: The Art of Warfare, both also published by SUNY Press.