This book is the illustrated record of my trip of a lifetime to the wonder and beauty of Bali, Indonesia. While attending Western Michigan University I had the opportunity to go to Bali, Indonesia. Even though I was only there for about 2 and a half weeks it still inspires me to this day, thirteen years later the memories are still vivid for me. I hope these images inspire and influence you like they have for me. I chose to make this book into the format of a comic book or graphic novel to make it readily assessable to viewers. The images in the book are original photographs, personal drawings and paintings manipulated with a comic book program. Thanks for looking, Patrick B. Humphreys

In this book, Xiaolong Wu offers a comprehensive and in-depth study of the Zhongshan state during China's Warring States Period (476-221 BCE). Analyzing artefacts, inscriptions, and grandiose funerary structures within a broad archaeological context, he illuminates the connections between power and identity, and the role of material culture in asserting and communicating both. The author brings an interdisciplinary approach to this study. He combines and cross-examines all available categories of evidence, including archaeological, textual, art historical, and epigraphical, enabling innovative interpretations and conclusions that challenge conventional views regarding Zhongshan and ethnicity in ancient China. Wu reveals the complex relationship between material culture, cultural identity, and statecraft intended by the royal patrons. He demonstrates that the Zhongshan king Cuo constructed a hybrid cultural identity, consolidated his power, and aimed to maintain political order at court after his death through the buildings, sculpture, and inscriptions that he commissioned.

This memoir of fictional Chinese artist, Little Winter, is written for her American daughter. It takes the story of Communist China beyond the death of Mao and for the first time in fiction shows the birth of the radical art movement, The Stars, in 1979. Her haunting love story connects us to this time of hope for freedom of expression in China, and to a man frustrated by 'being kept in small shoes'. Superbly researched and beautifully told, this story brings to life recent Chinese history and explains Chinese politics.