Contemporary Public Art in ChinaMore than ten thousand public artworks have been created in the Peoples Republic of China since its establishment in 1949. They range from the ubiquitous Chairman Mao statues, to immense monuments and murals commemorating revolutionary uprisings, to abstract pieces inspired by international artistic trends. Eighty three of the most intriguing of these works are featured here by American sculptor John Young, who traveled to dozens of Chinese cities,