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[email protected] Asia Society To Bring Together American and Chinese Museum Directors at Forum in Hangzhou and Shanghai, November 19–21 Book Launch Event and Discussion for Making a Museum in the 21st Century To Be Held at Shanghai's Long Museum, November 19, 6:30 p.m. Asia Society will convene the second U.S.-China Museum Leaders Forum, a part of the U.S.- China Forum on the Arts and Culture and the Asia Society Arts and Museum Network, in Shanghai and Hangzhou, November 19–21, 2014, to continue a dialogue that began with the first such gathering in Beijing in 2012. Nearly thirty American and Chinese museum directors, as well as several American art foundation leaders and Chinese cultural philanthropists, will meet to discuss potential areas for partnership and projects for collaboration. Co-convened by Orville Schell, Arthur Ross director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society, and Melissa Chiu, director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the U.S.-China Museum Leaders Forum aims to foster collaboration and exchange among museums in the two countries, first and foremost by enabling American museum leaders and their Chinese counterparts to connect on a personal level. The biennial Forum was initiated to address challenges faced by museums in China and ways to establish, operate, and sustain the thousands of new institutions the Chinese government plans to build in the next decade.