How Chinese is it? A newly refurbished--and now nominally "Asian"--National Palace Museum recently mounted a landmark Song Dynasty show.(Report from Taipei I)

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For more than half a century, since Chiang Kaishek carried off nearly 3,000 crates of choice treasures from Beijing's imperial art holdings, Taiwan has served as custodian of the world's finest collection of Chinese art and antiquities. But in January, Taiwan's government decided to downplay that link--or as many see it, that debt--to China by altering the charter of the National Palace Museum, where those works are stored. References to the collection's true origin in the Imperial Palace [a.k.a. Forbidden City] in Beijing were removed and the museum's very identity was ...

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