Zhu Qiyu, Emperor Daizong of the Ming Dynasty, even wrote a preface for the book before it was reprinted. As in previous dynasties, food and drinks in the Ming Palace were supplied in season.

Her second book, In Death as in Life: A Material History of Ming Dynasty Tombs (in progress), moves away from the imperial, monumental, and expansive and towards sites of much more intimate scale: ...

It represents the addition of three Imperial Tombs of the Qing Dynasty in Liaoning to the Ming tombs ... and architectural traditions of the last two feudal dynasties (Ming and Qing) in the history of ...