In this captivating and personal study, Hugh Moss explores the ‘widespread conviction that everything of importance in twentieth century art had happened, or was happening in the West’. Drawing together works by pioneering artists such as Lui Shoukwan, Wucius Wong and Fang Zhaoling amongst many others, Moss argues that we might need to look again at the grand narratives of Western art in order to appreciate that artistic revolution had been near constant within the tradition of Chinese ink, particular in the Chinese diaspora.