Contemporary Public Art in China: A Photographic Tour (Samuel and Althea Stroum Books)

China’s rich ethnic culture is eviden in works such as Yuan Yungsheng’s mural at the Beijing airport, portraynig the Dai people’s Water Splashing Festival (whose nude bather was censored until recently and covered over by plywood). They range from the ubiquitous Chairman Mao statues, to immense monuments and murals commemorating revolutionary uprisings, to abstract pieces inspired by international artistic trends. Many public artworks illustrate China’s twentieth-century military struggles, including resis