With the explosive growth in the art world in China, the volume of exhibitions has expanded from a handful to thousands. Each year China s galleries, private and public museums, and art centres together exhibit hundreds of thousands of individual artworks. But how many of them are any good? How many should find their way into a collection, into a museum; into history? As Seen puts on record a select handful of outstanding artistic achievements: the notable artworks worth remembering. China s contemporary art scene has been described by The Economist as a cultural landscape with so few signposts . A neat and compact guide, As Seen provides an antidote with a collection of signposts that add up to a timely, straight-to-the-point look at forty of remarkable pieces of art.