Night Waves - 08/05/2008

Rana Mitter talks to Xu Bing, one of China's leading artists - who recently sold a piece for one million dollars - about his new work and the emerging Chinese art scene. A former 'sent down youth', Xu was relocated to the countryside for two years during the Cultural Revolution and has recently been invited back to China after years of living in New York. He often takes calligraphy as a starting point for his work, recombining elements drawn from genuine Chinese characters to invent new ones, and combining English words to create a sort of 'Chinglish'.