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The Amazing Journey to Save China’s Cultural Heritage (Part 2)

Chiang Kai-shek, who led the Republic of China (ROC) first in mainland China and then in Taiwan, was a strong supporter and guardian of China’s national cultural relics. He had a long history with the Forbidden City Palace Museum in Beijing. As early as 1928, he was one of the first 37 trustees of the Palace ...

Helen London

Statue of Chiang Kai-shek.

The Amazing Journey to Save China’s Cultural Heritage (Part 1)

The Forbidden City Palace Museum in Beijing, China, together with the National Palace Museum in Taipei, will normally receive more than 20 million visitors in a given year. But few of them will be aware of the extraordinary story behind some of the treasures they have seen and the odyssey that took those artifacts on ...

Helen London

The Beijing Palace Museum.