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Fusing old and new, this work obliges us to ask, what have we taken from the past and what will we offer to the future? What sources do we draw from and which do we reject? And, above all, who we are and where are we headed? Zhang Hongtu himself confesses, “I know where these people came from, but I don’t know where they are going.”","remarks":"Asian rotation January 2016, Asian_rotation_June2013.pdf"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<font color=\"#7030a0\"><span lang=\"EN\">2001/2008&nbsp;Zhang Hongtu, born 1943 (New York, NY), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2008.<br>Note: here use \"/\" instead of \"–\" to indicate creation date of 2001; edition date 2008.<br></span></font><font color=\"#7030a0\"></font><font color=\"#7030a0\">\n</font><font color=\"#7030a0\">\n</font><font color=\"#7030a0\">\n</font>","remarks":null}],"media":[{"id":62150,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV08459","isprimary":0,"rank":31,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":"Restricted","caption":"Inventory 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