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Chinese contemporary art continues to smash records. At a Nov. 14 Sotheby's sale in New York City, paintings by Fang Lijun and Zhang Xiaogang fetched $4 million and $5 million,rnrespectively, including Sotheby's surcharge. Eleven days later, at Christie's Hong Kong auction, a set of 14 drawings by Cai Guo-Qiang, 50, brought $9.5 million. What's selling? Everything from political pop art to cynical realism—like Yue Minjun's gruesome "Execution" (above),with the victims bearing his trademark face-splitting grin, which sold for $6 million at Sotheby's in London this fall. Buyers aren't just Asians; the gallery owned by British adman and megacollector Charles Saatchi has lately been buying more and more Chinese contemporary art.