Images are used courtesy of the following: Cover and this page, center image, Mercedes deBellard; center image skyline, photograph by Xuanyu Han (Getty/1057591360); bottom left, JayKay57 (Getty/157473098). This page, clockwise from top left: Portrait of a seated woman, Portrait of a Chinese aristocrat of Canton, both courtesy Musee des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet, © RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, New York; Mercedes deBellard; Qianlong; Yongzheng (courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art).

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Text copyright © 2020 Diana Ma

Illustration by Mercedes DeBellard

Lettering by Jen Wang

Book design by Hana Anouk Nakamura

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