Dialogue with the World

The National Palace Museum has been engaging in dialogues with the world since its inception. In addition to welcoming visitors across the globe, the Museum partakes in international exchanges. With each overseas exhibition, the Museum is enhancing cross-cultural ties, and bridging the past and present, the local and the global. Over the past century, the Museum had been through multiple overseas exhibitions. These meaningful events are mirrors of the times, reflecting how the Museum presents itself and how it is perceived culturally on the international stage. Meanwhile, they illuminate the shifting political identity, cultural perspective and the Museum's diversifying role. In the past, these exhibitions represented the Republic of China with cultural diplomacy as its mission, shaping Chinese art as classic and "orthodox" amid the Cold War sentiment. As the world enters the 21^st century, overseas exhibitions are also becoming multi-displinary and evolving with the changing mindset, positioning the Museum's collection as a cultural universal shared by the entire humanity.

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  Remaining Calligraphy by Three Song Generations of the Su Family from Meishan
  Song Dynasty
  Album Leaf

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  • National Treasure

  Remaining Calligraphy by Three Song Generations of the Su Family from Meishan is a collection of manuscripts by Su Xun (1009-1066), his sons, Su Shi and Su Zhe (1039-1112), and grandson, Su Guo (1072-1123).

  In 2014, the exhibition, Treasured Masterpieces from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, was held in the National Tokyo Museum and Kyushu National Museum in Japan. Among the exhibits was Letter to the Supervisory Assistant Director (Tiju Jiancheng) by Su Xun, which received praise from the then curator as possessing sublime and ethereal delight.

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  Draft of a Requiem for My Nephew
  Yan Zhenqing, Tang Dynasty
  Handscroll

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  • National Treasure Restricted Display Work

  The An Lushan rebellion broke out during the Tianbao reign of the Tang dynasty in the mid-8th century, during which, Yan Zhenqing (709-785), who was 50 at the time, lost his cousin, Yan Gaoqing, and nephew, Yan Jiming. Engulfed with grief and anguish, he wrote the requiem with words voicing his bare emotions and mournful sorrow. This original manuscript was on loan to the National Tokyo Museum for the 2019 exhibition, Unrivaled Calligraphy: Yan Zhenqing and His Legacy (2019/1/16-2/24). During the six-week period, it drew nearly 200,000 viewers.