"This book has been published in conjunction with travelling exhibition Treasures from a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan, organized by the Settle Art Museum in collaboration with the Bureau of Cultural Relics, Sichuan Province of the People's Republic of China. The exhibition then travelled to the Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas (September 30, 2001-January 13, 2002); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York (March 4-June 16, 2002). Its final venue was the Royal Ontario Museum (August 3-November 10, 2002)"--verso.