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In an interview with Jing Daily, artnet News Editor in Chief Benjamin Genocchio discusses why the global art world needs more China knowledge. Read More

A recently-published report reveals that that confidence Chinese contemporary art has increased by 16.9 percent in April 2013, showing that it remains a growing asset for security among art collectors. Read More

Mainland Chinese auction houses are hoping to compete with international rivals like Sotheby's and Christie's in Hong Kong by targeting the most sensitive place for regional collectors: their pocketbooks. Read More

2012 proved a more complex and challenging year for auction houses in Hong Kong and mainland China, coming off a stellar 2011 during which the Chinese art market grew to $33.8 billion. But what could 2013 hold in store? Read More

This week, canonized Chinese artist/painter Qi Baishi’s Ode to the Motherland fetched a whopping 72 million yuan (US$11.4 million) at Beijing Poly’s autumn auction in Beijing. Read More

Though China's domestic art and antique auction market is now the world's largest, the home-grown auction industry continues to suffer from a dearth of credibility, damaged by poor authentication standards, a lack of regulation, rampant non-payment and untested upstarts crowding the market. Read More

He may not be a household name outside of China (or even in most households in China), but this past weekend a painting by the late artist Li Keran sold for a record-setting 293.25 million yuan (US$46 million) at the Beijing Poly spring auctions. Read More

If it wasn't a Chinese buyer who won the battle for "The Scream" at Sotheby's this week, what does its record-breaking sale have to do with China? Read More

Emerging seemingly out of nowhere in the last decade, Chinese art collectors have scoured the globe for every piece of top-quality Chinese contemporary art, rare antique and historical ink painting they can get their hands on, in the process becoming one of the world's most distinctive buyer segments. Read More

Over the past few years, we've watched as China has emerged as the world's newest and fastest-growing art and auction market, with a newly wealthy demographic buying everything from Qianlong-era jades to blue-chip contemporary art. Read More