Introduction Part I: Art Exchanges
1. Chile, China, Cuba: A Mural and Beyond
2.Realism or Modernism? Exhibitions of Sesshū and Sino-Japanese Artistic Exchanges in the 1950s
3. An Unpublicized Graduation Exhibition in 1962: Misalignments Impacting the Romanian Painting Class in China
4. A Short-Lived Challenge to Socialist Realism: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Other British Artists in a Little Known 1960 Exhibition in China
5. "So Are They Good Artists?": Context and Asymmetry in Postwar Sino-Italian Artistic Exchanges
6. The Politics of Landscape Painting: Three International Art Exhibitions in 1970s China Part II: Alternative Practices
7. “Creating A New Era in the Twentieth Century”: Huang Binhong (1865-1955) and Modern Art during the Cold War
8.Tan Huamu’s Pictorial Diaries in the Era of the New China
9. A Battle between Two Paths of Art? Huang Xinbo and Modernism during his Hong Kong Period
10. The Moving Image: Ye Qianyu, Dance and Socialist Modernity in Art
11. Decorative Pictures: Zhang Ding and Chinese Modernism in the 1960s
12. The Romanian Oil Painting Training Class and Modernist Undercurrents in Chinese Art Education of the Socialist Period Part III: Coda
13. Never forget Mao: The Monumental as Radical Universal OR: The Making of a “Maoist Modern”