Mainland treasures for Taiwan exhibition
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00:00 UTC+8 January 21, 2013
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Chinese mainland has agreed to lend exhibits for a major art exhibition in Taipei, the head of Taiwan's top museum said yesterday.
Feng Ming-chu, director of Taipei's Palace Museum, is flying to Beijing today, the first such trip since 2009 when the chiefs of the museum and of Beijing's Palace Museum made landmark exchange visits.
Feng will meet her mainland counterpart Shan Jixiang to discuss the loan of more than 30 artifacts from the museum, also known as the Forbidden City, for the October exhibition in Taipei.
"The Palace Museum in Beijing has agreed to our proposal for loaning artifacts," she said.
The exhibition, which will also include items from the Taipei museum, features the artistic tastes of Qianlong (1735-1796), an emperor in China's final Qing Dynasty.
"Hopefully the cooperation between the two museums will be further enhanced through the visit, following the 2009 ice-breaking exchange of visits by the curators of the two sides," Feng said.
The 2009 visits resulted in the loan of 37 works from the Beijing museum to the Taipei museum later that year.
It was the first joint exhibition by the two museums, highlighting warming relations between the mainland and Taiwan.
But the Taipei museum still has no plans to lend artifacts which were originally shipped from the mainland, fearing they would not be returned, Feng said.
The Taipei museum boasts more than 655,000 Chinese artifacts spanning 7,000 years from the prehistoric Neolithic period to the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1911.
They were removed from the Beijing museum in the 1930s by the then Nationalist government to prevent them falling into the hands of invading Japanese troops.
The collection was transported to Taiwan by the Nationalists more than 60 years ago after they were defeated by communist forces and fled the mainland.
Ties have improved markedly since 2008 when Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan's Kuomintang party came to power on a platform of strengthening trade and tourism links. He was re-elected last year for a second four-year term.
Feng Ming-chu, director of Taipei's Palace Museum, is flying to Beijing today, the first such trip since 2009 when the chiefs of the museum and of Beijing's Palace Museum made landmark exchange visits.
Feng will meet her mainland counterpart Shan Jixiang to discuss the loan of more than 30 artifacts from the museum, also known as the Forbidden City, for the October exhibition in Taipei.
"The Palace Museum in Beijing has agreed to our proposal for loaning artifacts," she said.
The exhibition, which will also include items from the Taipei museum, features the artistic tastes of Qianlong (1735-1796), an emperor in China's final Qing Dynasty.
"Hopefully the cooperation between the two museums will be further enhanced through the visit, following the 2009 ice-breaking exchange of visits by the curators of the two sides," Feng said.
The 2009 visits resulted in the loan of 37 works from the Beijing museum to the Taipei museum later that year.
It was the first joint exhibition by the two museums, highlighting warming relations between the mainland and Taiwan.
But the Taipei museum still has no plans to lend artifacts which were originally shipped from the mainland, fearing they would not be returned, Feng said.
The Taipei museum boasts more than 655,000 Chinese artifacts spanning 7,000 years from the prehistoric Neolithic period to the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1911.
They were removed from the Beijing museum in the 1930s by the then Nationalist government to prevent them falling into the hands of invading Japanese troops.
The collection was transported to Taiwan by the Nationalists more than 60 years ago after they were defeated by communist forces and fled the mainland.
Ties have improved markedly since 2008 when Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan's Kuomintang party came to power on a platform of strengthening trade and tourism links. He was re-elected last year for a second four-year term.
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