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Article: The 'Secret' is out; Peabody Essex exhibit offers rare opportunity to see China's Imperial treasures.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- July 22, 2001
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Few places capture the imagination as much as China. To Westerners, it remains one of the most exotic of all countries. And nowhere is that exoticism better encapsulated than in Beijing's former Imperial Palace, popularly known as the Forbidden City. Although now overshadowed by an ill-fated past and corrupted by centuries of intrigue and subterfuge, its former courtly splendor is brought to life brilliantly in the Peabody Essex Museum's "The Secret World of the Forbidden City: Splendors From China's Imperial Palace."
Organized by California's Bowers Museum of Cultural Art and China's Palace Museum, the exhibit is the largest traveling show of the Palace Museum's ...