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This article gives a critical introduction to art works included in the exhibition New China/New Art: Contemporary Video from Shanghai and Hangzhou, which was curated by the present authors and staged at the Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham UK from 5 September to 1 November 2015. New China/New Art showcased a diverse range of videos produced during the last decade by artists with a working relationship to Shanghai and Hangzhou. Included were art works by nine individual artists and eleven others working collaboratively, mostly under the age of forty: Birdhead (Song Tao b. 1979 and Ji Weiyu b. 1980), Chen Hangfeng (b. 1974), Chen Tianzhou (b. 1985), Double Fly (Cui Shaohan, Huang Liya, Li Fuchun, Li Ming, Lin Ke, Wang Liang, Sun Huiyuan, Yang Junling and Zhang Lehua, est. 2008), Gao Mingyan (b. 1983), Liu Chenzhen (b. 1976), Mujin (b. 1982), Peng Yun (b. 1982), Tan Lijie (b. 1991), Tang Chao (b. 1990) and Zhang Qing (b. 1977). Most of these artists were trained in Hangzhou and/or Shanghai and/or have established their careers in one or other of, or between the two cities, while the remainder, including Chen Tianzhou, exhibit and sell their work in Shanghai. All contribute to a regional concentration of video art production and exhibiting whose critical mass is almost certainly unsurpassed elsewhere in China. The first part of this article discusses the historical development of video art in Shanghai and Hangzhou. The second gives a critical reading of some of the works presented in New China/New Art.