About the Author

Marcus Flacks is a collector of and dealer in ancient Chinese furniture, scholar's rocks, and scholar's objects and the author of three books on these subjects. Stephen Little is the Florence and Harry Sloan Curator of Chinese Art and head of the Chinese & Korean Art Departments at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Zhu Liangzhi is professor of philosophy and aesthetics at Peking University. Richard John Lynn is professor emeritus of Chinese thought and literature at the University of Toronto.