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Article: Unburied Treasures : The harrowing adventures of a quiet scholar who twice saved the imperial art collection, as told by his family and comrades.(transporting imperial treasures from China to Taiwan)
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- Newsweek International
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- September 20, 1999
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In his final days, legendary museum curator Chuang Yen had become something of a relic himself. He smoked an ornate pipe, and wore Confucian robes long after they went out of style. On his deathbed in 1980, he had one last regret. Twice in his 82 years Chuang had rescued the priceless collection of Beijing's Palace Museum from the ravages of war. After Japan invaded in 1931, Chuang led a caravan that spirited 3,000 years of imperial treasures to safety in southern China. As the Red Army rolled through the south in 1948, Chuang led a second, even more tortuous escape 800 miles to Taiwan, where he helped build a second Palace Museum. "My father felt he never completed his ...
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