Product Description: This accessible and beautifully illustrated book, explores the context and meaning of the painted scenes and accompanying text of the Admonitions Scroll and provides a fascinating insight into Chinese culture and history.

Offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the filming of the cult-film masterpiece, exploring the twenty-four different stories that, when interwoven, documented American obsession with fame and success.

Product Description: Despite their compelling presence and often exquisite quality, Chinese ancestor portraits have never been studied as a genre. This richly illustrated book (85 portraits in full color, 81 in black and white) is the first to explore in depth the artistic, historical, and religious significance of these remarkable paintings and to place them in context with other types of commemorative portraiture...read more

Filled with frank reviews of the latest dining, shopping, and nightlife spots, this hip guidebook to the nation's second-largest city covers TV tapings, cemetery tours, scenic drives, star-gazing opportunities, celebrity drive-bys, and other L.A. highlights, with side trips to Disneyland, Catalina Island, and the Orange Coast planned out as well. Original.