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THE GEOFF RABY COLLECTION OF CHINESE ART AT LA TROBE UNIVERSITY – TAASA Review June 2021

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This article was originally found in the June 2021 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 20).

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Damian Smith R eflecting on his experiences as Australia’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China from February 2007 to August 2011, Dr Geoff Raby, addressing an Australian Press Club luncheon in November 2020, was heard to remark that: ‘Diplomacy is not about how loudly you speak; it’s about results’.

Raby was alluding to issues of human rights in China and the possibility of affecting change as an outsider.

For those who know Raby personally, he may have well been speaking about an entirely different topic – that of Chinese contemporary art and its startling rise to fame...