Within an exploration of contemporary China, it is important to explore the role of globalization on Chinese art and the nation as a whole. Art is a way for Chinese artists to ponder what a modern China can really be like, though this model is not necessarily one that modernizes via direct Westernization. China has historically held to its national identity by carefully absorbing Western influences, but nonetheless manages to use them to create something uniquely Chinese. This even extends to the variety of capitalism now sweeping China, which still seeks a socialist society. Western scholarship, though, still sees China as Westernizing and resisting its “old” and “communist” ways, but this is errant in some ways.