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Introduction and

Acknowledgments

Thomas Krens

Director, The Solomon R.
Guggenheim Foundation

China: 5, 000 Years explores innovation

and transformation in Chinese art over a

period of five millennia, from neolithic

jades of the third millennium bce

through the modern era. While the very

length of this continuous cultural

tradition may suggest a profound

conservatism, China has in fact produced

daring, transgressive, and stylistically