Uncooperative contemporaries : art exhibitions in Shanghai in 2000 / [with essays by Jane DeBevoise, Lee Weng Choy, Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu and Mia Yu ; archival texts by Xu Hong and Zhou Zixi ; reflections by Ai Weiwei, Chen Lingyang, Chen Yanyin, Feng Boyi, Hou Hanru, Li Liang, Li Xiangyang, Li Xu, Liang Shaoji, Xu Zhen, Yang Zhenzhong, Yang Zhichao, Zhang Qing, Zheng Shengtian and Zhu Yu (assembled by Anthony Yung) ; and an introduction by John Tain].

Introduction: uncooperative contemporaries / John Tain -- Shanghai 2000: let's talk about money / Jane DeBevoise -- Manifolds of the local: tracing the neglected legacies of the 2000 Shanghai Biennale / Mia Yu -- 'Fuck off': search for the way in which art lives as 'wildlife' / Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu -- Coincidence and re-collection: lateness and insight / Lee Weng Choy -- Art exhibitions in Shanghai in 2000 -- To select, to be selected and who selects: the Shanghai Bienniale in the context of globalisation / Xu Hong, 2000 -- From Niuzhuang Village to BizArt / Zhou Zixi, 2004 -- Voices: Shanghai, 2000 / Assembled by Anthony Yung.

"Shanghai’s ‘exhibition frenzy’ in 2000 presented conflicting positions at a transitional moment for ‘global’ contemporary art. This book explores what was at stake for modernity, contemporaneity, nationalism, internationalism and globalism in the city at the time, while looking back from diverse perspectives today. Landmark artist-led initiatives are analysed alongside the state-led Shanghai Biennale, then in its third edition, with the terrain further complicated by public interventions and commercial initiatives. What contrasting modes of public address were developed? How did visitors engage at the time, and how may we engage afresh now? And how might this moment in Shanghai index wider transformations of the art field?" -- Página web del editor.