Watch this video on the history of the National Palace Museum's treasures, from their beginnings and raison d'être as the Chinese emperors' personal items, collected over the centuries; their transformation into assets of the Palace Museum, opened in 1925 and located inside Beijing's Forbidden City; their removal, in 1933, and constant relocation during the Japanese occupation of China; to the transport in 1948-1949, by order of Chiang Kai-shek, of the most valuable pieces to Taiwan, where they remain to this day as prized possessions of the Taipei successor, and rival, to the original and extant Palace Museum in Beijing.
IMHO, the title time fragmented. In light with the international comunity, what used to be one country, one museum is now two countries, two museums.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, it is indeed an interesting video.