Alison Carroll AM is Guest Editor of this edition of Artlink and Artlink’s International Editor. Her book The Revolutionary Century; Art in Asia 1900-2000 (Macmillan 2010) covered some of the issues in this article (in retrospect, too) fleetingly. She was founding Director of Asialink Arts (1990-2010), during which time she worked with many of the authors of this edition.