【BBC 09.9.23】China lends rare art to Taiwan

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China says it is going to lend some of its rare cultural artefacts to Taiwan for the first time since the civil war.
Itwill send about 40 pieces to Taipei's main museum for a jointexhibition on a Qing dynasty emperor, according to the Beijing News.


The whereabouts of China's artefacts have long been a contentious issue.



The joint exhibition will be held at Taipei's National Palace Museum

When the defeated Nationalists retreated to Taiwan at the end thecivil war, they took many treasures with them, and Beijing wants themback.


Analysts say the Chinese offer is a sign of warming ties between China and Taiwan.


TaiwanesePresident Ma Ying-jeou is much closer to China than his predecessorChen Shui-bian, and since he came to power in 2008 relations betweenthe two neighbours have improved.


The exhibition - which willfocus on artefacts from the time of Yong Zheng, who ruled China for 13years until 1735 - will open at Taipei's National Palace Museum inOctober.


History of art

China's ancient treasures are coveted items, but many of the most spectacular collections are in Taipei rather than Beijing.



Taipei's museum holds many ancient Chinese treasures (Image: National Palace Museum)

About 650,000 paintings, bronzes, porcelain and jade from Beijing'simperial collection were packed into crates to escape the Japanese armyin the 1930s.


When the Communists under Mao Zedong won theChinese civil war, Mao's defeated rival Chiang Kai-shek left for Taiwanand took the artefacts with him.


Decades later, the loss of these artefacts still riles the Beijing government.


Chinarecently criticised the Taipei museum for telling a distortedhistorical story with some of the objects, and Taiwan is very carefulwhen lending the artefacts abroad for fear of Chinese attempts to seizeor claim them.


But now, according to the BBC's artscorrespondent Laurence Pollard, the Chinese appear to be dealing withthe museum in a normal, scholarly way, helping mount a jointexhibition.


This exhibition illustrates the importance culture can have in diplomatic exchanges, our correspondent says.


Nevertheless,the Taiwanese say there will not be any loans going in the oppositedirection until an agreement is reached about Beijing's claims ontreasures still in Taipei.

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Decades later, the loss of these artefacts still riles the Beijing government.
几十年后，遗失的文物依然激怒着北京政府。


China's ancient treasures are coveted items,
中国古代宝藏，令人垂涎的物品。

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