Hidden behind the highest mountains on earth, Lhasa stands on the 'roof of the world' in the shadow of its past. Less than 50 years ago, it was the capital of a Buddhist theocracy ruled by a god-king, the Dalai Lama, and at the heart of a flourishing religion and culture. While it is now an autonomous region of China, the spirit of Lhasa lives on through the Dalai Lama and his people, expressing itself through some of Tibet's most exuberant decorative and religious furniture.
Anna Hestler Books
How to seem coquettish and provocative, while at the same time looking coy and demure, was the art perfected by fashionable young women portrayed in pre-war Shanghai posters. They were a genre all to themselves. If the true power of advertising lies in seduction, here was a style that subtly hinted at much more than it recealed, even when promoting products as innocuous as liprouge, talcum powder, soaps, perfumes, cigarettes and the ubiquitous Shanghai movies.