Introduction | How did you start your research | What was your main goal as a fine arts student | The simultaneity of the nonsimultaneous | Cultural shock | Group exhibitions | A creative disjunction | The private collector | Group and survey exhibitions | Comparison with Soviet Union | Appendix | China Avantgarde Exchange 89 | China Avantgarde Exchange 90 | Curators | Theoretical Framework | Berlin 1993 | Creators | Survey exhibitions