Hundreds of artefacts and artworks from the Taipei National Palace Museum were due to go on display in Japan for the first time.
But Taiwan threatened to cancel the event after it emerged that the word “national” had been omitted from a number of promotional posters and tickets.
The name issue has long been a sensitive topic for Taiwan, which is recognised by only 22 countries after a decades-old diplomatic tug-of-war with China from which it split in 1949.
In order to give its artifacts and artwork on loan, the NPM wanted guarantees from the Japan government, not only from the museums, that its masterpieces would be sent back after the exhibit in Taipei.
For this reason, Taiwan does not send its works of art to states that do not have specific laws on the matter. So imagine How the leader of the Taiwan will feel ,as Taiwanese noticed the "National " word is missing .
Guaranteess from Japan become a worrisome commitment ; To them as the Missing Word on the brochure , may not be that serious ,But The Heritage of Chinese 's 500 years History and Culture may be at risk therefore such Careless mistake cannot be Taken Too for Granted .
In the past since 1991, Taiwan sent various works of art to countries that offered legal guarantees," said NPM Director Dr Feng , and Other Countries in the region may be given similar opportunites in the near future except maybe China . Similar agreements have been signed in the past with the United States, France, Germany and Austria.
Among the museums that preserve the masterpieces of Chinese art, the one in Taipei has the same origin as the Palace Museum in Beijing's Forbidden City
Taiwan's NPM holds in fact more than 696,000 artefacts brought from Beijing to Taiwan after the civil war in mainland China.
The disagreement broke out in Mid June 2014 after the name of Taiwan’s national museum was changed in promotional posters advertising an upcoming exhibition in Japan — a spat that highlighted Taipei’s sensitivity over its global diplomatic status.
Hundreds of artifacts and artworks from the Taipei National Palace Museum were due to go on display in Japan for the first time.
But Taiwan threatened to cancel the event after it emerged that the word “national” had been omitted from a number of promotional posters and tickets.
The name issue has long been a sensitive topic for Taiwan, which is recognised by only 22 countries after a decades-old diplomatic tug-of-war with China from which it split in 1949.
The row was solved at the last minute after the Tokyo National Museum, the exhibition’s main sponsor, fixed the problematic posters, museum officials in Taipei said.
A Taiwan Spokewoman added that the Tokyo museum owes Taiwan an apology for its mistake. Taiwanese officials have insisted the Tokyo museum guaranteed in a contract that the lender’s full name would be used and that the word “national” would not be omitted.
Japan, like most countries, has diplomatic ties with Beijing rather than Taipei. But it maintains close trade and other ties with Taiwan, which was its colony from 1895 to 1945.
The National Palace Museum last year announced the loan of 231 artefacts to Japan, its first to an Asian country, following exhibitions in the United States, France, Germany and Austria.
The museum’s contents — one of the world’s finest collections of Chinese treasures — mostly came from Beijing’s Forbidden City.
They were brought to the island by Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, when he fled to Taiwan after losing the Chinese civil war to the communists in 1949.
For years the National Palace Museum was unwilling to lend the artefacts to Japan for fear that China would try to reclaim them, until the Japanese government passed a law in 2011 to prevent such seizures.
China regards Taiwan as part of its territory awaiting reunification, by force if necessary, although tensions have eased markedly since Taiwan’s President Ma Took Office
Origin of Ancient Chinese Imperial Treasure
