Shao Yiyang is a professor of Art history and Theory, deputy chair of School of Humanities at Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing. She received her Ph.D in 2003 from the Department of Art history and Theory at the University of Sydney. She has published widely in Chinese and English on modern and contemporary art and theory including most recently Modern and Contemporary Art in the 20th Century (2018), as well as “Whither Art History?”, Art Bulletin (June 2016), and “The International Identity of Chinese Art Theoretical Debates on Chinese Contemporary Art in the 1990s” in Jason C. Kuo ed，Contemporary Chinese Art and Film: Theory Applied and Resisted (2013).