Li Shan

"Li Shan's Rouge series turns out to be an important symbolic icon in the 1990s, because it is tightly connected with ideology. As a matter of fact, sex is veritably the true messages beneath the Rouge images. However, since it came out at a time when the cold war just ended, and the smoke of the gunpowder was still levitating, any art work, as long as it conveys a certain political icon appropriately, will become part of the ideology conflict or part of the game."

-90s Art China: 1990-1999, by Lv Peng (Hunan, 2000), p174