The guru of avant-garde Chinese art in the Eighties and early Nineties talks now of a return to tradition

Percentage rates are down in many areas for the first half of the season

This mega-show spanning five millennia focuses on “diversity rather than unity”, insists its organiser Sherman Lee, but does it risk homogenising Chinese art into a timeline?

Photographer and film director Yonfan has given eight Chinese paintings to the Musée Guimet in Paris

David Tang mixes modern Chinese art with the smartest, retro-style club in Hong Kong and his own frantic life-style

His motivations to sell remain unclear

1996 saw high prices and new records with the Chinese determining the shape and make up of future sales

With the Shanghai Museum expanding this month, a modern art museum planned for two years hence and a dozen serious commercial galleries likely in 1997

The red-letter roll call of recent Chinese archaeology

Rapid advances as new companies model their catalogues and conditions of sale on Western models

The Three Gorges dam and a number of smuggling stories highlight the difficulty of preserving the country's heritage

A ten-fold increase in turnover on 1993

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts opens a year ahead of schedule

Daring to say “This is rare and beautiful” in new V&A Chinese gallery