Editor and lead curator Fan Jeremy Zhang is the Asian Art Museum Barbara and Gerson Bakar Curator of Chinese art. Trained as an archaeologist, he is the curator of numerous exhibitions and the editor/author of several catalogues including Royal Taste: The Art of Princely Courts in Fifteenth-Century China.  Jay Xu, The Barbara Bass Bakar director and CEO, Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and CultureJohn Major, independent researcher in New York CityColin Mackenzie, curator of Chinese art, Art Institute of ChicagoHaicheng Wang, associate professor of art history, Mary and Cheney Cowles Endowed Professor, University of WashingtonGuolong Lai, associate professor of Chinese art and archaeology, University of FloridaI-fen Huang, assistant art curator, National Palace Museum, Taiwan

• ContentsForewords Jay Xu and Fang QinAcknowledgments Fan J. ZhangMapsIntroduction Fan J. ZhangPart I Exploring Zhou’s Southern BorderlandONE Unearthing a Lost State: The Discovery of Zeng Jay XuTWO Discovering Chu: The Legacy of the Southern Lands Fan J. ZhangTHREE Art and Religion on the Ancient Jiang-Han Plain John S. MajorPart II Material Culture of the Middle Yangzi River RegionFOUR Jades of the Chu and Zeng States Colin MackenzieFIVE Ritual and Musical Traditions in the States of the Jiang-Han Plain Haicheng WangSIX Obsession with the Supernatural and Luxuries: Chu-Style Lacquerware, Textiles, and Funerary Objects Guolong Lai and I-fen HuangPart III CatalogueJades, Agate, and Glass Bronze Ritual VesselsMusical Instruments and WeaponsLacquerwarSpecial Mortuary ObjectsTextiles, Gold, and MiscellaneaInscriptionsReigns of Zhou Kings and Zeng and Chu LordsChronologyBibliographyIndex

Editor and lead curator Fan Jeremy Zhang is the Asian Art Museum Barbara and Gerson Bakar Curator of Chinese art. Trained as an archaeologist, he is the curator of numerous exhibitions and the editor/author of several catalogues including Royal Taste: The Art of Princely Courts in Fifteenth-Century China.  Jay Xu, The Barbara Bass Bakar director and CEO, Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and CultureJohn Major, independent researcher in New York CityColin Mackenzie, curator of Chinese art, Art Institute of ChicagoHaicheng Wang, associate professor of art history, Mary and Cheney Cowles Endowed Professor, University of WashingtonGuolong Lai, associate professor of Chinese art and archaeology, University of FloridaI-fen Huang, assistant art curator, National Palace Museum, Taiwan

• ContentsForewords Jay Xu and Fang QinAcknowledgments Fan J. ZhangMapsIntroduction Fan J. ZhangPart I Exploring Zhou’s Southern BorderlandONE Unearthing a Lost State: The Discovery of Zeng Jay XuTWO Discovering Chu: The Legacy of the Southern Lands Fan J. ZhangTHREE Art and Religion on the Ancient Jiang-Han Plain John S. MajorPart II Material Culture of the Middle Yangzi River RegionFOUR Jades of the Chu and Zeng States Colin MackenzieFIVE Ritual and Musical Traditions in the States of the Jiang-Han Plain Haicheng WangSIX Obsession with the Supernatural and Luxuries: Chu-Style Lacquerware, Textiles, and Funerary Objects Guolong Lai and I-fen HuangPart III CatalogueJades, Agate, and Glass Bronze Ritual VesselsMusical Instruments and WeaponsLacquerwarSpecial Mortuary ObjectsTextiles, Gold, and MiscellaneaInscriptionsReigns of Zhou Kings and Zeng and Chu LordsChronologyBibliographyIndex

Editor and lead curator Fan Jeremy Zhang is the Asian Art Museum Barbara and Gerson Bakar Curator of Chinese art. Trained as an archaeologist, he is the curator of numerous exhibitions and the editor/author of several catalogues including Royal Taste: The Art of Princely Courts in Fifteenth-Century China.  Jay Xu, The Barbara Bass Bakar director and CEO, Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and CultureJohn Major, independent researcher in New York CityColin Mackenzie, curator of Chinese art, Art Institute of ChicagoHaicheng Wang, associate professor of art history, Mary and Cheney Cowles Endowed Professor, University of WashingtonGuolong Lai, associate professor of Chinese art and archaeology, University of FloridaI-fen Huang, assistant art curator, National Palace Museum, Taiwan

• ContentsForewords Jay Xu and Fang QinAcknowledgments Fan J. ZhangMapsIntroduction Fan J. ZhangPart I Exploring Zhou’s Southern BorderlandONE Unearthing a Lost State: The Discovery of Zeng Jay XuTWO Discovering Chu: The Legacy of the Southern Lands Fan J. ZhangTHREE Art and Religion on the Ancient Jiang-Han Plain John S. MajorPart II Material Culture of the Middle Yangzi River RegionFOUR Jades of the Chu and Zeng States Colin MackenzieFIVE Ritual and Musical Traditions in the States of the Jiang-Han Plain Haicheng WangSIX Obsession with the Supernatural and Luxuries: Chu-Style Lacquerware, Textiles, and Funerary Objects Guolong Lai and I-fen HuangPart III CatalogueJades, Agate, and Glass Bronze Ritual VesselsMusical Instruments and WeaponsLacquerwarSpecial Mortuary ObjectsTextiles, Gold, and MiscellaneaInscriptionsReigns of Zhou Kings and Zeng and Chu LordsChronologyBibliographyIndex