The long march

China's modernizing policies of the late 1970s offered artists more opportunities to learn about art from around the world, as well as the ability to work independently of state commission and the Socialist Realist style sanctioned under the Mao era. A profusion of different styles and experimental tendencies subsequently emerged. The early 1990s saw the ascendancy of two styles that engaged in sharp cultural critiques: Political Pop and Cynical Realism as well as the performance-oriented East Village movement in Beijing. More recent movements include the Post-70s Ego Generation, which consists of young artists raised under China’s One Child policy who tend to take the self as subject rather than the collective. Yet many contemporary Chinese artists continue to take broader social issues and traditions as the basis for their work. Source: https://www.artsy.net/gene/contemporary-chinese-art