In her first editorial, Catherine Millet (co-founder with the art dealer Daniel Templon, and editor-in-chief) explained why she refused a journalistic approach, too much relying on anecdote; that she no more wanted an avant-garde review that erased art history than she wanted a review on the history of art longing for antiques.
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The Department also oversees the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, Liberation Army Daily (JieFangJun RiBao), the PLA Literature and Art Press (Kunlun Press), PLA Pictorial, and PLA Press.
Having obtained a BA in English from the University of Cambridge in 1971, Shone was through the 1970s and 1980s a prolific reviewer in the art press - The Burlington Magazine, Art Review, Artforum - as well as a contributor on literature and biography to The Spectator and The Guardian.