This catalogue is published for the exhibitions of the Asia Society Museum in New York and the Colby College Museum in Waterville, ME. Richly illustrated with a lot of unknown works from American museums or private collections, this book contains also texts by Ankeney Weitz, Melissa Walt, Michelle Yun and Phoebe Chao, that enlighten the relationships Zao Wou-Ki had with the United-States and link his paintings to all important artistic movements of the second half of the twentieth century.