"Featuring about 150 loans from China's Hubei Provincial Museum, this exhibition, set to open at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco under the name Lost Kingdoms of Ancient China, examines the new finds of Zeng and Chu tombs together to explore the cultural landscape of the southern borderland of the Zhou dynasty. It also reveals the legendary rising story of the phoenix kingdom erased by the Qin, highlighting the importance of the middle Yangtze River region in forming a southern style in Chinese art. For a better understanding of the Zeng and Chu material, the exhibition catalogue consists of seven essays to elaborate the introduction to the remarkable art and culture of this region, with entries of about 150 works in six categories (jade, bronze ritual vessels, musical instruments and weapons, lacquerware for luxury and ceremony, funerary bronze and wood objects, and textiles and artefacts with designs). Seven contributors have written for this catalogue, including five outside scholars with expertise on different subjects"--

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 Culture
John Major, independent researcher in New York City
Colin Mackenzie, curator of Chinese art, Art Institute of Chicago
Haicheng Wang, associate professor of art history, Mary and Cheney Cowles Endowed Professor, University of Washington
Guolong Lai, associate professor of Chinese art and archaeology, University of Florida
I-fen Huang, assistant art curator, National Palace Museum, Taiwan