This substantial collection of newly commissioned essays presents an ambitious, entertaining, and accessible guide to developments in Asian art over the past twenty years of the epoch of globalization.

I. Contexts, Definitions, Problems 1. Introduction: Art in 'global Asia' in a Transformed World 2. Why Asia? Map-making as the social construction of place: Increasing Asian power in the world 3. Shifting Local Cultures through Traveling Identities in the New Silk Roads: The Temptation to Return II. Mappings 4. Orders of Spectating: Rehearsals of Sovereignty and New Museums of Art in the Near East 5. Pedagogy, Bureaucracy, and Fashioning a Rooted Modernism 6. The 1990s: A New Epoch in the History of Korean Contemporary Art 7. Facts in the Ground: Artefacts, Fictions, and National Identities in Contemporary Palestinian Art 8. Telling Time through Nation and Narration. Towards an Understanding of 'Asian Contemporary Art' in Global Asia III. Regions and Borders 9. Palestinian Video Art and the Fluxus of Globalization: 'Palestinian' as a Contemporary National Identity 10. Palestinian Video Art and the Fluxus of Globalisation: Palestine as an 'Imagined Community' 11. Doing the Business in the Hong Kong Art World 12. The Woman Does Not Exist: De-oedipalization of Contemporary Art 13. Metonym and Metaphor, Islands and Continents: Reflections on Curating Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia IV. Sites, Systems and Practices 14. Palestinian International Exhibitions: From Universal Resistance to Global Nomadism - The Case of Qalandiya International. Qalandiya International: The Predicament of a Colonially Defined Locality 15. Palestinian International Exhibitions: From Universal Resistance to Global Nomadism - The Case of Qalandiya International. Qalandiya International: A Genealogy of Institutional Patterns, Behaviours and References 16. Art after March 11 Earthquake and Tsunami: Radical Changes in Japanese Art 17. Biennales and Triennales in Global Asia: Art as Journey and Encounter 18. Museum Frenzy: Notes from the Field on Studying the True Colour Museum V. Reflections on the Dialectics of Contemporary Art in Asia 19. The Exhibition 20. The Age of Gold and the Dust of Stars: Paradise and Fall in the Paintings of Li Xinping 21. The Provincial Cosmopolitan: Emily Jacir and the Mediterranean Sea 22. A New Ecology of Knowledges: Modes of Abyssal Thinking 23. From Dusty Warehouses to the White Cube: BizArt and the developing forms of contemporary art display in Shanghai