contemporary art scene, I was especially taken by the monumental and

rather dramatic art installation by Qiu Anxiong in the cavernous space

of the Universal Studios Gallery. In my Art Talk about the Chinese art

scene, I described the dimly lit room dominated by a railroad car – not

a full-scale replica, but the real thing, which I recognized

immediately. I rode similar trains as a child in Soviet Russia in the

50's and 60's. At the gallery, one was invited to climb into this

no-frills railroad car where every window was used as a screen for

projecting black and white documentary footage of 20th century Chinese

history, with special emphasis on the brutality experienced by Chinese

people during WWII and the Cultural Revolution...