Essays include: a Foreword by Li Hongwei entitled Materiality and Thing: A Comment on Li Hongwei's Ceramic Sculptures, a piece by Wayne Higby entitled Self-Portrait: The Art of Li Hongwei, an essay by Mary Drach McInnes entitled Summoning Eternal Life, an essay by Micha l Amy entitled Li Hongwei: Tradition and Change, and an essay by Andrew L. Maske entitled Inner Reflection, Outer Transformation: The Art of Li Hongwei.
Photo-essays explore various series in Li Hongwei's work: Weight of Meditation, Self-Portrait, Illusion, Allegory of Balance, Rebirth in Breakage, Upwelling of Gravity, Xuan, and Vase.