Contents : Foreword / Wang Huangsheng -- Part one: overview. Introduction: A decade of Chinese experimental art (1990-2000) / Wu Hung -- 1990s conceptual art and artistic conceptualization / Zhu Qi -- Chinese experimental painting in the 1990s / Yi Ying -- Zero to infinity: the nascence of photography in contemporary Chinese art of the 1990s / Karen Smith -- The rise and development of video art and the maturity of new media art / Wu Meichun and Qiu Zhije -- 'Women's art' as part of contemporary Chinese art since 1990 / Liao Wen -- The periphery and cultural concerns: making and exhibiting installation and experimental sculpture in the 1990s / Yin Shuangxi -- Systems of Chinese experimental art in the 1990s / Pi Li -- 'Experimental exhibitions' of the 1990s / Wu Hung -- Criticism on experimental art in the 1990s / Yi Ying -- The reception in the west of experimental mainland Chinese art of the 1990s / Britta Erickson -- Building on the ruins: the exploration of new urban cinema of the 1990s / Zhang Zhen -- Facing reality: Chinese documentary, Chinese postsocialism / Chris Berry -- Just on the road: a description of the individual way of recording images in the 1990s / Wu Wenguang -- Part two: Artists and works. Theme 1. Memory and reality -- Theme 2. Self and environment -- Theme 3. Global and local -- Experimentation continues -- Part three: Reference matter. Chronicle: experimental Chinese art, 1990-2000. Published to coincide with the First Guangzhou Triennial (opening November 18, 2002), this volume provides a systematic description and analysis of Chinese experimental art and cinema of the 90s, the subject of the Triennial. This volume consists of three parts: Part One provides an overview of 90s' Chinese cinema with seventeen scholarly essays on Chinese cinema and experimental art; Part Two is a catalogue of 130 works by 120 artists selected for the Triennial and provides an analysis in three large thematic sections centered on "History and Reality," "People and Environment," and "Local and Global"; Part Three provides a complete chronology of important events and exhibitions and a detailed bibliography, including all publicly and privately published books and exhibition catalogue of this art.