The Distorting Mirror analyzes the multiple and complex ways in which urban Chinese subjects saw themselves interacting with the new visual culture that emerged

This collection brings togethet some of Laxman's best short stories, travelogues about the United State, Australia, the Andamans, Darjeeling etc

Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformity In the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese w