《沙龍沙龍》敘述了自文革後期到改革開放初期十年間（1972–1982）北京當代藝術的發展情況 。本書考察了當時活躍在藝壇的藝術家的創作與實踐，思考創作者如何盡可能在嚴苛的政治環境下進行「內部放逐」，在藝術與政治的緊張關係中摸索，或調整個人的立足點。本書通過具體案例的討論，凸顯歷史的現場感，以求從原有的藝術史敘述中發現隱蔽的縫隙，作為反思的起點。

Salon Salon unfolds a narrative about Beijing’s art scene in a decade from the late period of the Cultural Revolution to the beginning of the Reform and Opening-up (1972–1982)––a period that is considered as a brand-new start for contemporary Chinese art. It focuses on the continuous influence of the ideological structure of socialist realism in China on the practice and discourse of contemporary Chinese art; how artists and their pieces engaged in “internal exile” wherever possible amidst a harsh political environment, feeling out and defining the tense relationship between art and politics or adjusting their individual standpoints. This book also attempts to discover hidden crevices in the existing narratives of contemporary Chinese art history, to serve as starting points for rethinking.