It is the finest collection of imperial Chinese art anywhere. But Taipei's National Palace Museum rarely sends its treasures overseas. Indeed the exhibition that opens in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum on February 26th will be only the fourth big foreign loan it has made since it opened in 1965. Like everything else in Taiwan, the art collection is coloured by the tense relationship with China. The exhibition is possible only because Austria, like America, France and Germany, the three earlier destinations, passed legislation granting exhibits immunity from judicial seizure, to stop China staking a legal claim to them.
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