Taiwan and Beijing Palace Museums launch first ever joint exhibit
(2 Oct 2009) SHOTLIST
AP Television
Taipei, 2 October 2009
1. Various of museum workers unpacking artefacts from Beijing Museum
2 Pan, worker taking out artefact from the box and placing it on the table
3. Close-up emperor Yongzheng's royal seal from Qing Dynasty
4. Close-up flower enamel vase from Qing Dynasty
5. Mid shot photographers
6. Close-up and zoom in lacquerware box from Qing Dynasty
7. Close-up a journalist reading details of artefacts
8. Wide shot director of Taiwan National Palace Museum, Chou Kung-shin walking to podium
9. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Chou Kung-shin, Director of Taiwan National Palace Museum:
Today is a great day and it has truly achieved an active cultural exchange between two sides.
10. Mid shot journalists
11. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Yang Zen-Feng, exhibition sponsor in Taiwan:
Two sides have split for 60 years. It's the first time we are working together for this significant and historic exhibition in Taiwan.
12. Wide shot workers unpacking artefacts
13. Workers unpacking artefacts
14. Close-up artefacts from Qing Dynasty
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TAIWAN AND BEIJING MUSEUMS TO OPEN FIRST JOINT EXHIBITION
Taiwan's National Palace Museum said on Friday it will open its first-ever joint exhibition with China next week, 60 years after they split amid civil war.
The announcement comes 16 months into Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou's presidency, in which he has focused on improving ties and expanding exchanges with China.
The museum has borrowed 37 relics from the Beijing Palace Museum for its exhibition on the Chinese Qing Dynasty's 18th century Emperor Yongzheng.
The antique pieces provided by the Beijing museum include an imperial stone seal with the inscription, being an emperor is difficult, and a massive Yongzheng portrait.
Last February Chou became the first chief of her organisation to visit the Forbidden City in 60 years and won the Beijing museum's consent for cooperation.
Taiwan and China split amid civil war in 1949, but Beijing continues to claim the island as part of its territory.
The ownership of the Chinese cultural relics currently stored in the Taiwan museum remains a highly sensitive issue between the two sides.
In the waning stages of the war, the forces of Nationalist strongman Chiang Kai-shek moved 600-thousand items of Chinese calligraphy, porcelain, bronzes, landscape paintings, portraiture and figurines from the imperial collection in the Forbidden City to Taiwan.
The massive art transfer created the world's greatest museum of Chinese art in Taiwan at the expense of its counterpart on the mainland.
Taiwan has long defended the decision, saying it was a necessary step to save China's cultural heritage from Mao Zedong's Communists.
China says the art was stolen and rightfully belongs to Beijing.
Because of the Chinese claim, Taiwan has been reluctant to lend its artifacts to China out of fear that they would not be returned.
Chou declined on Friday to answer questions about whether China would be allowed to borrow antique pieces from her museum for an exhibition.
The National Palace Museum exhibition opens October 7 and runs for three months.
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