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The Lost Treasures of the Palace Museum
During the Sino-Japanese war, over a million cultural relics belonging to Beijing’s Palace Museum (the Forbidden City) were secretly transported from Beijing to southern China to avoid looting. Some were taken to Taiwan by the Kuomintang government in the late 1940s, and while most of the rest were returned to Beijing, a significant number of artifacts remain in Nanjing to this day
DREAM OF THE RED MANSION
The restoration of Prince Kung’s Mansion, one of Beijing’s best-preserved imperial residences, has taken a total of 28 years. NewsChina looks into why the project remains tricky to negotiate
The Show Must Go On
While Peking opera fans in China have shriveled in number over the past few decades, the art form has received a warm reception in foreign countries like Germany, giving experts hope the tradition can be revived on the domestic stage
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