Zhang Tingqun is a Sichuan artist, graduating from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 2002. He uses Western style oils but applied with Chinese brushes, using linen as a backing, and is known for taking everyday scenes and using them to illustrate the collision between China and the West. In this piece, "Constructing China", he depicts the nation as going through a period of dramatic change, and reveals it's erratic development. Strange and ugly, unharmonious buildings appear in his tea cup as traditional culture is ignored or damaged. Now there is no one single day in which construction cranes do not appear on the previously serene skyline. This painting symbolises the hope that the classic and irreplaceable culture from the past will not completely vanish in this rush to modernisation.