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This paper addresses the issue of modernity in the non-West by analysing the platform of ‘fine art’. The critical break with historical traditions is a defining feature of modernity, but this break is particularly critical for non-western cultures because for them modernisation is not separable from ‘westernisation’, and moreover it means a radical epistemic transformation. ‘Westernisation’ of Asia has been programmed along ideological lines, and this paper looks at China’s three parallel and contemporaneous ‘art worlds’ to suggest a method for analysing China’s divergent modern paths as different manifestations of a coherent civilisation. This presentation is an abridged version excerpted from a longer paper Three Parallel Artworlds-The Case of China jointly written by Chang Tsong-Zung and Johan Hartle, published in 2015.