Product Description: Chao Shao-an is especially noted for his talent in depicting birds, flowers, and insects. The renowned living master of the Lingnan school, an early in 20th-century movement to modernize Chinese painting, Chao Shao-an now lives in Hong Kong...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the 13th century the nomadic tribes of Mongolia came together briefly under the inspired leadership of Genghis Khan to create one of the largest empires the world has ever known. It survived barely a century, but its impact on popular imagination has been great...read more

Product Description: Among the ceramic sculptures of China, none can surpass the Schiwan figures in terms of modeling, vivid expression, and colorful glazes. This presentation of the Shiwan ceramics features 100 figurines and vessels from American collections dating from the Song dynasty to the present...read more