Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting: From Realism to Post-Modernism”, held in Belgium in 1995, this catalogue offers a visual and written documentation of the history of oil painting in China. The artists featured here represent a diversity of styles of the genre while the accompanying essays, written by noted academics and specialists in the field of Chinese oil painting, provide an insightful background of its development. Short biographies of the artists are included in this catalogue.