We are grateful that the Palace Museum has been so generous as to send 62 of their most precious works to this show.

He was a noble collector whose name is indelibly linked to this masterpiece.

This artwork has never before traveled outside the Forbidden City ¡ª it is too valuable.

It was like going through a museum of an artist's greatest works.

Life is too short to waste our precious time with stress and frustration. We should concentrate instead on the many things we have to be grateful for.

There was a not-quite-secret stairway in the back of the library building that led up to a balcony bordered by delicately arched windows. These looked out over a small courtyard lined with sour-orange trees. Across from this were the royal baths- which connected directly to the audience chamber, banquet hall, and eventually the throne room itself. That had sounded strange until Jasmine explained to Aladdin that sultans often entertained foreign guests and consulted with top advisers while enjoying a pleasant mint-scented sweat in the steam rooms.