The introduction, How to collect Classical Chinese Furniture?, might be very amusing to the western reader, as well as the Chapter on Materials of Classical Furniture. The nine-pages List of top 100 international auction results (mostly 2004-2008) is senseless and misleading, since no single piece is pictured, except the auction house, location and sale date, no lot number is indicated. Otherwise, a good introduction into joinery and ornamentation of the different types and examples of chinese furniture, but not Classical Chinese Furniture of the late Ming and early Qing.