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The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Director: Executive Deputy Director: Ji Deputy Directors: Ji Tianbin, Wang Yamin, Chen Lihua, Song Jirong, Feng Nai’en, Lou Wei

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Work in the Year 2013 8

‘Safe Palace Museum’ Project 12

Collection Management and Preservation of

Ancient Architecture 20

Exhibitions 28

Academic Research and Publications 46

Education and Publicity 58

The Digital Palace Museum 68

Cooperation and Exchanges 74

Financial Statement 84 Work in the Year 2013 he year 2013 marked the approval and implementation of the ‘Safe We implemented new visitor policies which included closing the Pal- TPalace Museum’ project. While carrying out our routine work, the ace Museum every Monday afternoon and prohibiting cars, smoking and Palace Museum also applied a high level of cultural awareness to this project fire. and its museum construction work, ensuring the sustainable development of cultural heritage conservation. In 2013, the Palace Museum received a total The ICOM International Training Centre for Museum Studies, the of 14.56 million visitors, with ticket revenue reaching RMB 690 million. Palace Museum Academy, and the Palace Museum Institute were established.

The ‘Safe Palace Museum’ project was approved and implemented in The Palace in Beijing and reached a consensus on April. deepening cooperation.

The Inventory of the Palace Museum Collection, the result of the fifth in- The Forbidden City Publishing House obtained approval for publish- ventory checking of the collection, was released to the public on the official ing audio-visual and electronic products. website for the first time.

Postscript by Zhang Dashan of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) to Ode to an Expedition by an anonymous artist of the Sui Dynasty (581-618) entered the museum collection, bringing the scroll and the postscript to- gether.

Work began on several projects: conserving the Wild-goose-wing- shaped Tower (Yanchi lou) heritage building complex at the (Wu men), rebuilding the carriage warehouse at the Imperial Stables (Shangsi yuan), and building the house for cultural heritage protection and manage- ment at South Grand Storage.

10 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Work in the Year 2013 11 ‘SAFE PALACE MUSEUM’ PROJECT

12 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 13 and protect the Palace Museum’s heritage buildings. In 2013, we submitted the plan for the project and conducted a review of the project proposal.

III. Redevelopment of Infrastructure With the aim of ensuring the absolute safety of cultural heritage and heritage buildings, we sought to redevelop the museum’s infrastructure in order to carry out seamless monitoring, eliminate safety hazards, prevent theft, damage and fire, and strengthen the effective preservation and man- Aerial view of the northern part of the Palace Museum Exterior of the greenhouse agement of cultural heritage and heritage buildings. In 2013, we compiled and reviewed the project proposal for phase 1 of the maintenance and rede- velopment of infrastructure. fter Vice Premier Liu Yandong presided over the meeting to launch Athe ‘Safe Palace Museum’ project at the Palace Museum’s Xiyuhe Base on April 16, the seven parts of the project made varying degrees of progress IV. Monitoring of World Cultural Heritage thanks to the leadership and coordination of the Ministry of Culture. These The Palace Museum World Cultural Heritage Monitoring Centre parts were launched in succession and the results achieved in stages. conducted monitoring work as planned. Monitoring projects fell into two categories: firstly, projects which were approved in 2013, including publish- ing The Palace Museum World Cultural Heritage Monitoring Report (2012) and I. Construction of the Northern Part of the Palace monitoring the dynamic visitor flow, termite and lightning proofing. Sec- Museum ondly, projects which were approved before 2013 and conducted in 2013, Projects in the northern part of the Palace Museum aimed to solve including collection of basic information on outdoor displays. two problems: furniture, carpets and other large artefacts in the collection of the Palace Museum could not be conserved appropriately, and artefact displays suffered from limited space. We also sought to give the public a view of traditional artefact restoration techniques. In 2013 we focused on researching and compiling proposals for these projects. We also finished the construction of the greenhouse at Xiyuhe Multi-purpose Base, and com- menced the garden and landscaping project for the Palace Museum’s Court Gardening Research Centre.

II. Redevelopment of the Underground Artefact Storerooms The redevelopment of the underground storerooms sought to elimi- nate potential safety hazards, increase the area used for storage, and vacate The Palace Museum World Cultural Heri- Monitoring temperature and humidity in exhibition hall tage Monitoring Report

14 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 ‘Safe Palace Museum’ Project 15 V. New Palace Museum Security System Security and fire fighting systems were redeveloped, and the wire- less intercom system put into use. Projects for redeveloping the fire fighting system and constructing security facilities were conducted at the same time, and 70% of these projects were completed by the year’s end. We started technological R&D and review of the Access Control System, and made plans to conduct localised tests. We installed security sprayers in some key areas for testing. The redevelopment project for the security system in the Gate of Correct Deportment (Duan men) entered the system debugging stage.

3D data collection on outdoor objects

Survey of heritage buildings The new central control room for security at the Gate of Correct Deportment

16 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 ‘Safe Palace Museum’ Project 17 VI. Seismic Protection for the Palace Museum VII. Rescue Conservation and Restoration of the Collection Palace Museum Collection Phase 1 of the cultural heritage seismic protection evaluation was The Palace Museum conducted a cultural heritage restoration project completed. Staff conducted simulated tests of the anti-earthquake capability in collaboration with Dongcheng District People’s Government. In 2013, of movable rack samples and object containers, and carried out a prelimi- we restored ten wooden artefacts, restored a silk tapestry with supplemen- nary survey for Phase 2 of the seismic protection evaluation, testing the tary material, and completed preliminary surveys and experiments for the museum’s capacity to handle emergencies. restoration of the Goryeo knife. In December we held the launch ceremony for a project aimed at building an integrated space for cultural heritage con- servation, including a cultural heritage restoration workshop, cultural herit- age warehouse, laboratory, and photography workshop.

Testing for earthquake resistance of structure and cultural artefacts at the Belvedere of Raining Flowers (Yuhua ge) Launch ceremony for the project to construct an integrated space for cultural heritage conservation

18 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 ‘Safe Palace Museum’ Project 19 COLLECTION MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION OF ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE

20 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 21 Pasting tieluo reproduction in the Hall of Mental Cultivation (Yangxin dian) Collection inventory released on the Palace Museum website

n 2013, the Palace Museum released The Inventory of the Palace Museum categories. We restored 207 artefacts, the movable type edition of the Com- ICollection to the public, with the aim of fully performing our function of mentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu shili) (14 volumes) from serving society, promoting culture and being receptive to public supervision. the Hall of Martial Valour (Wuying dian) and the Jiaxing Edition of the Tripi- The Palace Museum was the first large multi-purpose museum in taka (Jiaxing zang) (12 volumes). to do so, marking the first step in making information about the museum The following items from the collection were included in the fourth collection public. Over the same period, the museum steadily continued its batch of the National Rare Books of China: the Jianning Prefecture edition of follow-up work on inventory checking of its collection and facilitated con- Four Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu sizhuan) (38 servation, restoration, and acquisition. chapters), together with ‘Outline’, ‘Abstract’, ‘Dongpo’s Commentaries on the States’, ‘Chronicles of Twenty States in the Spring and Autumn Period’ and ‘On the Rise and Decline of States’, published in the eleventh year of I. Collection Management the Jiajing reign (1522-1566) during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644); Po- Museum staff carried out the inventorying and protection of original ems of Previous Ages Selected by the Emperor (Yu xuan lidai shi yu) (120 chap- tieluo (affixed hangings) in the palace buildings. Following collection man- ters), the imperial edition from the 46th year in Kangxi reign (1662-1722); agement requirements, we successfully transferred 461 international gifts. the Nine Scholars’ Collections of and Commentaries on Du Fu’s Poems (Jiu jia ji With the fifth inventory checking of the artefacts as a basis, we completed du shi) (36 chapters), the Hall of Martial Valour edition. The Inventory of the Palace Museum Collection. On January 1, the first list of In 2013, the Palace Museum received eighteen items through pur- 660,000 artefacts across eighteen categories was released on the Palace chase, donations or transfer from elsewhere: Museum website; in June, the list of historical books and documents was Ma Shouhua’s hanging scroll of Bamboos in Ink donated by Certificate of inclusion in the National released, including 1,265,037 items and sets of items in total, split over 19 Ms. Yang Luona from ; Rare Books of China

22 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Collection Management And Preservation Of Ancient Architecture 23 Symposium on the framework of the Master Conservation Plan for the Palace Museum

‘Wubaijinyou’ Inkstick ‘Minguoqianqiu’ Inkstick ‘Huanghaisongjing’ Inkstick Purchased Gilded Copper Statue of Buddha made by Hu Kaiwen and made by Hu Kaiwen and made by Hu Kaiwen and of the Infinite Life commissioned by the donated by Mr. Hu Yuhua donated by Mr. Hu Yuhua donated by Mr. Hu Yuhua Sixth Panchen Lama II. Preservation of Ancient Architecture Impressions of the Palace Museum scroll and ‘Tian’anmen’ In this year we started work on compiling the Master Conservation Plan and ‘Beijing Palace Museum’ seals donated by Mr. Li Lanqing; for the Palace Museum, carrying out an on-site survey and organising a sym- Postscript by Zhang Dashan of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) to posium on the plan framework. Following the five-year plan for the Palace Ode to an Expedition by an anonymous artist of the Sui Dynasty (581-618), Museum (2011-2015), in 2013 we conducted survey and design work on donated by China Guardian Auctions and Mr. Lu Mutao; twenty historic buildings including the Gate of Heavenly Purity (Qianqing Three works: Seated Avalokitesvara, Su Wu Herding Sheep, and Kshiti- men), Hall of Preserving Harmony (Baohe dian), Palace of Universal Happi- garbha donated by the couple Chen Guiyu and Ke Hongrong; ness (Xianfu gong), Hall of Embodied Treasures (Baoyun lou), Hall of Exuber- Three works: Maitreya Sitting on a Rock, Happy Maitreya, and Dance ance (Yinghua dian), and the area of the Belvedere of Viewing Achievements Extolling Peace donated by Mr. Qiu Shuangjiong; (Fuwang ge) in the garden of the Palace of Tranquil Longevity (Ningshou Three works: Avalokitesvara on a Lotus Base, Seated Avalokitesvara, and gong). We checked the lightning proofing devices, completed Phase 1 to Crowned Avalokitesvara donated by Mr. Xu Xingze; Phase 3 termite prevention and treatment monitoring, established a com- Three works: ‘Huanghaisongjing’ Inkstick, ‘Minguoqianqiu’ Inkstick, prehensive pest and disease monitoring system and strengthened pest and and ‘Wubaijinyou’ Inkstick, made by Hu Kaiwen and donated by Mr. Hu disease prevention and treatment. Yuhua; A total of eight maintenance projects were carried out in the mu- Purchased Gilt Copper Statue of Buddha of Infinite Life commis- seum. Of these, six were to conserve heritage architecture, three were multi- sioned by the Sixth Panchen Lama. year projects, and two were completed. The project to conserve the garden

24 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Collection Management And Preservation Of Ancient Architecture 25 goose-wing-shaped Tower heritage building complex at the Meridian Gate was completed, and it is estimated that the whole project will be finished in 2015. The same is true of the project to redevelop the Hall of Embodied Treasures, which began in December. The project to rebuild the carriage warehouse of the Imperial Stables started in September and completion is also expected in 2014, while the project to build the house for cultural heritage protection and management at South Grand Storage started in Oc- Examination for stage one of the con- tober and completion is expected in 2015. struction skills for official heritage archi- tecture course With regard to the Qianlong Garden conservation project, staff com- pleted the indoor damage survey and data input, as well as the initial design of electrical and security systems, and restored the interior decoration. Staff Installing lightning proofing equipment on roof in the garden of the Tower of the East Prosperity Gate after conservation project Palace of Compassion and Tranquility also conducted a survey of indoor hanging panels and formulated a restora- tion plan, and some stages of the restoration of the qisha (‘lacquered gauze’) were completed. The first group of staff began their internship at the Met- ropolitan Museum of Art in the USA, while ceremonies marked gradua- tion from the first session of the wood conservation training course and the opening of the second session. Staff completed reports on interior decora- tion and wood conservation training projects. Museum staff completed the application to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage’s Key Base for Scientific Research for Research and Conservation of Ming and Official Architecture, and responded to the organisation’s comments. Compilation work for Ancient Architecture Conservation Projects in the Palace Museum: the and Construction site of Wild-goose-wing-shaped Tower at the Meridian Launch ceremony for redevelopment and conservation of the Hall of Ancient Architecture Conservation Projects in the Palace Museum: the Gate of Di- Gate Embodied Treasures vine Prowess began, and the Maintenance Report on the Hall of Imperial Peace (Qin’an dian) entered the publishing stage. Research work was carried out of the Palace of Compassion and Tranquility (Cining gong) began in April for Research on Official Coloured in the Ming Dynasty: Forbidden City 2011, and was completed in September 2013. Similarly, the project to Case Study. conserve the East Prosperity Gate (Donghua men), which began in Decem- Work started on courses aimed at inheriting construction skills for ber 2011, was completed in December 2013. The project to conserve the official heritage architecture, with a winter course organised for technical Lingzhao Belvedere at the Palace of Prolonging Happiness (Yanxi Gong), training. The course included two parts: fourteen classes on basic theory, and started in August 2011, was suspended because the design plan needed to practical training inside the workshop. Trainees were examined on stage one be adjusted, while eighty percent of the project to conserve and restore the of the course, and the second stage of practical skills training began. A train- area of the Belvedere of Viewing Achievements (Fuwang ge) in the garden of ing course was organised on construction skills for woodwork in the For- the Palace of Tranquil Longevity (Ningshou gong) was completed by the end bidden City’s official heritage architecture, and paving work at the Gate of of 2013. Thirty percent of the project to conserve and maintain the Wild- Heavenly Purity, the first practical application of these skills, was completed.

26 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Collection Management And Preservation Of Ancient Architecture 27 EXHIBITIONS

28 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 29 he Palace Museum held a total of ten exhibitions. Among these, ‘The TSplendour of India’s Royal Courts: Collection of the Victoria and I. Thematic Exhibitions in the Palace Museum Albert Museum’ was a collaboration with a foreign museum. Moreover, the Gallery and ‘Qing Imperial Birthday Celebrations (1644-1911)’ 1. The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts: Collection of the were reopened to the public after redevelopment and upgrading, and the Victoria and Albert Museum furnishings of the Pavilion of Literary Profundity (Wenyuan ge) in original Date: April 25 – July 31, 2013 style was shown to the public for the first time. The Palace Museum also Venue: Meridian Gate Gallery held or participated in 21 exhibitions at other museums or cultural heritage Number of exhibits: 113 items (or sets) institutions in China, and continued three cross-year loan exhibitions. We also designed the promotional catalogue Splendours from the Forbidden City: Highlights from the Palace Museum’s Touring Exhibitions in China, including ten exhibitions, to meet demand from domestic museums for loaned items.

Splendours from the Forbidden City: Highlights from the Palace Museum’s Touring Exhibitions in China

Panorama of ‘The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts: Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum’

Exhibition hall for ‘Qing Imperial Birthday Celebrations (1644-1911)’ Exhibits from ‘Qing Imperial Birthday Cel- ebrations (1644-1911)’ Poster and banners for ‘The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts: Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum’

30 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Exhibitions 31 2. Calligraphy and Paintings Created by Zhang Boju and Pan Su: An Exhibition Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of Mr. Zhang Boju’s Birth Date: April 24 – July 10, 2013 Venue: Gate of Divine Prowess Number of exhibits: 45 items

Poster for ‘Dynastic Paintings and Sign for ‘Dynastic Paintings and Calligraphy in the Entrance to the exhibition hall for ‘Dy- Calligraphy in the Palace Museum Palace Museum Collection’ nastic Paintings and Calligraphy in the Collection’ Palace Museum Collection’

Exhibition hall for ‘Calligraphy and Paintings Created by Zhang Boju and Pan Su: An Exhibi- Poster for ‘Calligraphy and Paintings tion Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of Mr. Zhang Boju’s Birth’ Created by Zhang Boju and Pan Su: An Exhibition Commemorating the 150th An- niversary of Mr. Zhang Boju’s Birth’ 3. Dynastic Paintings and Calligraphy in the Palace Museum Collection Date: May 17 – July 16, 2013 (sixth selection, second rotation) September 4 – November 13, 2013 (seventh selection, second rotation) Venue: Hall of Martial Valour Number of exhibits: 64 items Exhibition hall for ‘Here Comes the Gentle Breeze: Qing Court Fans Exhibits for ‘Here Comes the Gentle Breeze: Qing Court Fans in the 4. Here Comes the Gentle Breeze: Qing Court Fans in the in the Palace Museum Collection’ Palace Museum Collection’ Palace Museum Collection Date: August 23 – November 24, 2013 Venue: Palace of Prolonging Happiness Number of exhibits: 120 items (or sets)

32 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Exhibitions 33 5. Selection of Sun Yingzhou’s Donations: An Exhibition Held 7. Finger Paintings by Qing Artist Gao Qipei in the Palace in Memory of the 120th Anniversary of Mr. Sun Yingzhou’s Museum Collection Birth Date: December 20, 2013 – February 2014 Date: September 13, 2013 – May 12, 2014 Venue: Palace of Prolonging Happiness Venue: Palace of Great Benevolence Number of exhibits: 69 items Number of exhibits: 100 items (or sets)

Exhibition hall for ‘Selection of Sun Yingzhou’s Donations: An Exhibition Manuscript and warehouse access permit for Mr. Sun Yingzhou Exhibit for ‘Finger Paintings by Qing Artist Gao Qipei in the Palace Exhibits for ‘Finger Paintings by Qing Artist Gao Qipei in the Palace Held in Memory of the 120th Anniversary of Mr. Sun Yingzhou’s Birth’ Museum Collection’ Museum Collection’ 8. Bronze Gallery 6. Dazzling Brilliance: Palace Museum Exhibition of Jun Date: From July 2013 Venue: Palace of Celestial Favour (Chengqian gong), Palace of Eternal Date: October 16, 2013 – August 25, 2014 Harmony (Yonghe gong) and Studio of Equal Obedience (Tongshun zhai) Venue: Palace of Prolonging Happiness Number of exhibits: 111 items (or sets) Number of exhibits: 125 items (or sets)

Preface and poster for ‘Dazzling Brilliance: Palace Museum Exhibi- Exhibition hall for ‘Dazzling Brilliance: Palace Museum Exhibition of Bronze Gallery Exhibits in the Bronze Gallery tion of Jun Porcelain’ Jun Porcelain’

34 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Exhibitions 35 II. Touring Exhibitions (with the Palace Museum as the Sole Lender or One of the Lenders) in China

1. Treasures of the Palace Museum: ’s Porcelain Date: January 15 – October 13, 2013 Venue: Number of exhibits: 100 items

Exhibition hall for ‘Treasures of the Palace Museum: Empress Dowager Cixi’s Porcelain’

Exhibition hall for ‘Treasures of the Palace Museum: Empress Dowager Cixi’s Porcelain’ Exhibits for ‘Treasures of the Palace Museum: Empress Dowager Cixi’s Porcelain’

36 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Exhibitions 37 5. The Splendors of Costume: Special Exhibition of Attire from Ming and Qing Dynasties Date: May 18 – August 18, 2013 Venue: Shandong Museum Number of exhibits: 85 items

Exhibition of ‘Celebrations With Palace Opera: Empress Dowager Cixi and Opera Exhibition at the Garden of Virtuous Harmony (the Grand Theater)’

2. Celebrations with Palace Opera: Empress Dowager Cixi and Opera Exhibition at the Garden of Virtuous Harmony (the Exhibition hall for ‘The Splendours of Grand Theater) Costume: Special Exhibition of Attire from Ming and Qing Dynasties’ Date: March 16 – September 16, 2013 Venue: Administrative Office of Beijing Summer Palace Number of exhibits: 93 items (including written materials and replicas)

3. The Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection Returns Home (joint exhibition) Date: April 10 – 16, 2013 Venue: Shaoxing Museum Number of exhibits: 2 items

4. Impressions of History: Qing Dynasty Emperors’ and Empresses’ Seals

Date: May 1 – July 1, 2013 Exhibits for ‘The Splendours of Costume: Venue: Museum Special Exhibition of Attire from Ming and Number of exhibits: 159 items Qing Dynasties’

38 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Exhibitions 39 6. Flying Dragons and Dancing Phoenixes: Selected Cultural Relics with Dragon and Phoenix Designs in the Palace Museum Collection Date: June 8 – July 7, 2013 Venue: Chinese National Artistic Treasure Gallery, Dongcheng Dis- trict, Beijing Number of exhibits: 100 items

7. Chengde Mountain Resort in Its Prime (joint exhibition) Date: August 1, 2013 – July 31, 2016 Venue: Museum of Chengde Mountain Resort Exhibition hall for ‘Wall Vase Decoration Art: The Appreciation of Exhibition hall for ‘Wall Vase Decoration Art: The Appreciation of Number of exhibits: 1 item Chinese Ancient Wall Vase’ Chinese Ancient Wall Vase’

8. Best Wishes: Exhibition of Sceptres in the Palace Museum Collection Date: August 15 – November 15, 2013 9. Wall Vase Decoration Art: The Appreciation of Chinese Venue: Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King Ancient Wall Vase Number of exhibits: 99 items Date: August 20, 2013 – March 20, 2014 Venue: Ningbo Museum Number of exhibits: 50 items

10. Foshan Ceramic Treasure Exhibition Date: August 22 – September 3, 2013 Venue: Number of exhibits: 20 items

11. White Mountains, Black Waters and Gyrfalcon: Special Exhibition of the 860th Anniversary of Beijing Being the Capital of China Date: September 17, 2013 – March 16, 2014 Venue: Capital Museum Number of exhibits: 14 items

Exhibition hall for ‘Best Wishes: Exhibition of Ruyi Sceptres in the Exhibition hall for ‘Best Wishes: Exhibition of Ruyi Sceptres in the Palace Museum Collection’ Palace Museum Collection’

40 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Exhibitions 41 15. The China Guardian Age: Major Retrospective Exhibition of China Art Auctions Guardian Auctions in the Past 20 Years (joint exhibition) Date: November 10 – November 30, 2013 Venue: National Museum of China Number of exhibits: 2 items

16. Wu School Painting Series: The Art of Wen Zhengming Date: November 12, 2013 – February 16, 2014 Venue: Museum Number of exhibits: 13 items

17. Shining Brilliance: Special Exhibition of Gold and Silver

Exhibition hall for ‘Dazzling Filigrees and Brilliant Colours: Special Exhibition of Selected Articles from the Qing Court in the Palace Museum Collection Enamels in the Palace Museum Collection’ Date: November 14, 2013 – February 16, 2014 Venue: Anhui Museum Number of exhibits: 100 items

12. Dazzling Filigrees and Brilliant Colours: Special 18. Exhibition of “Fu-Good fortune” Cultural Treasures Exhibition of Selected Enamels in the Palace Museum Collected in the Palace Museum Collection Date: December 5, 2013 – March 9, 2014 Date: September 20, 2013 – September 20, 2014 Venue: Ningbo Museum Venue: Museum of the Imperial Palace of ‘Manchukuo’ Number of exhibits: 136 items Number of exhibits: 103 items

13. Chinese Ding Culture (Joint exhibition) Date: September 25, 2013 – January 5, 2014 Venue: Henan Museum Number of exhibits: 10 items

14. Inheriting the Essence: Exhibition Commemorating the 180th Anniversary of Qian Hui’an’s Birth (joint exhibition) Date: October 9 – October 30, 2013 Venue: Yu Garden, Shanghai Number of exhibits: 10 items Exhibition hall for ‘Exhibition of “Fu-Good fortune” Cultural Treasures Collected in the Palace Museum’

42 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Exhibitions 43 19. The Art of Classical Chinese Chairs (joint exhibition) 21. Meeting the Ethereal: Exhibition of Chinese Agalwood Date: December 12, 2013 – January 5, 2014 Culture (joint exhibition) Venue: China Millennium Monument - Beijing World Date: December 25, 2013 – July 5, 2014 Number of exhibits: 1 item Venue: Shandong Museum Number of exhibits: 48 items 20. Immersive Wonderland: Imperial Court Opera Relics of the Qing Dynasty in the Palace Museum Date: December 18, 2013 – March 18, 2014 Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts Number of exhibits: 104 items

Theatrical costume trunk with the Chi- nese character shou (longevity) and cloud patterns on a red lacquered ground, ex- hibit for ‘Immersive Wonderland: Imperial Poster for ‘Immersive Wonderland: Imperial Court Opera Relics of the Qing Dynasty in the Court Opera Relics of the Qing Dynasty in Exhibition hall for ‘Meeting the Ethereal: Exhibition of Chinese Agalwood Culture’ Palace Museum’ the Palace Museum’

Exhibition hall for ‘Immersive Wonder- land: Imperial Court Opera Relics of the Qing Dynasty in the Palace Museum’

44 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Exhibitions 45 ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

46 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 47 he Palace Museum has aimed to build the ‘Academic Palace Museum’ Palace Museum research projects approved and established in 2013 Tto continuously extend our international academic influence. In 2013 the Palace Museum Academy and the Palace Museum Institute were set No. Research projects Implemented by Headed by up and began their research and training activities. The postdoctoral pro- 1 Research on the ‘Four Wangs’ in the Early Qing Dynasty Tian Yimin gramme station was established, and the first postdoctoral fellow admitted Panel to the station. The Forbidden City Publishing House acquired approval for publishing audio-visual and electronic products, book publication projects 2 Further Studies on ‘Along the River during the Qingming Festival’ Panel Yu Hui The Palace Museum postdoctoral pro- received national assistance, and published books won a series of awards in gramme station was approved and estab- Imitations of Calligraphy and Paintings in the Palace Museum Col- 3 Panel Zhang Zhen the publishing field. lished. lection

The Palace of Longevity and Health (Shoukang gong) – Focusing on 4 Panel Lin Shu the Empress Xiaoshengxian Period I. Academic Research Research activities were conducted under the guidance of the Scientific 5 Coin Casting in Three Vassal States of the Qing Dynasty Panel Liu Shunqiang Research and Publishing Plan for the Palace Museum (2011-2015) . With Gugong The Relationship between Tibetan Buddhism in Eastern Qinghai and Chen Qiusu and 6 Court Beliefs in the Ming and Qing Dynasties: Case Study of Qutan Panel Studies as a starting point, the Palace Museum Academy was established, Temple and the Palace Museum Institute was set up and organised the first session of the ‘Elementary Training in the Manchu Language’ course. The ICOM 7 History of Court Craftsmanship in the Ming Dynasty Panel Xu Xiaodong International Training Centre for Museum Studies was established and also Research on the Relationships between Zisha Ware, Literati Painters carried out its first training course. The postdoctoral programme station was 8 Panel Yu Fuchun and the Imperial Family set up and the first postdoctoral fellow was admitted to the station, while Research on Cultural Consumption in the Middle and Late Ming Beijing Foreign Studies University established the Research Centre for Gu- 9 Individual Zhan Xuelei Court gong Studies and Western Studies. In 2013, twenty-six museum-level research projects were approved 10 Survey and Analysis of Religious Halls in the Forbidden City Panel Ma Yunhua and established, and four museum-level research projects were completed. The ‘History of the Palace Museum during the Republic of China’ proj- 11 Kingfisher Feather Decoration Jewels in the Qing Court Panel Ruan Weiping ect was included in the 2013 Beijing Municipality Philosophy and Social Changes in Qing Official Titles in the Manchu and Chinese Languag- Science Research Programme. Six projects, including ‘Historic Wooden 12 Panel Yuan Li es (Phase 1) Furniture Restoration Techniques’, ‘Artefact-container-making Techniques’ and ‘Lacquerware Restoration and Reproduction Techniques’ were rec- 13 Imperial Temple Systems in the Qing Dynasty Individual Zhang Xiaoli ommended for inclusion in the fourth group of model national intangible Richard Vinograd, Christen Fund Profes- sor at Stanford University’s Department cultural heritage programmes. The Palace Museum and other organisations of Art & Art History, gave a lecture en - 14 The Annals and Chronicle Studies of the Qing Dynasty Panel Diao Meilin jointly conducted surveys on Tibetan Buddhism in Ngawa Tibetan and titled ‘The Compatibility of Eastern and Western Paintings in the Sixteenth and Poems Composed by the During His Western Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, studying its grottoes, 15 Individual Xiang Si Seventeenth Centuries’ Inspection Tours temples, and scripture halls, and achieved fruitful results. The museum or- The Interior Decoration of Imperial Structures During the Tongzhi ganised over forty symposia and academic lectures. 16 Individual Zhang Shuxian and Guangxu Reigns, Qing Dynasty

48 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Academic Research And Publications 49 Testing the Adhesive Intensity of Paraloid B-72 as a Pottery Adhesive 17 Panel Dou Yicun September 13-16 The Fifteenth China Academic Symposium on Qing History Material and Investigation into Adhering Methods

Application of Traditional Adhesive Materials to Restoration of International Academic Symposium on ‘Imperial and Royal Palaces: A Comparative Study of the Symbols 18 Panel Luo Han September 25-28 Organic Gems and Other Artefacts: Ivory Case Study of Monarchs’ Power in the East and West’

Methods to Eradicate and Prevent Mildew on Artefacts with King- 19 Panel Wang Chunlei October 15-16 Palace Museum Academic Symposium on the Jun Porcelain fisher Feather Decorations

20 The Cracked Glaze Technique in Song Dynasty Panel Jia Cui October 19-20 Academic Symposium on Ten Years of Gugong Studies

21 History of the Palace Museum Library Panel Liu Jialiang November 9-10 The Fourth Academic Symposium of the Palace Museums in Beijing and Taipei

Legal Problems Regarding Cross-straits Artefact Exhibition and Second International ‘Jao Tsung-I and Traditional Chinese Studies’ Academic Symposium and Celebration 22 Panel Luan Wenjing December 9-10 Exchanges of the Tenth Anniversary of the Establishment of Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole at The University of Hong Kong

23 Research and Report on Management Methods for In-house Legal Panel Zhang Yimeng Services and External Lawyers The Palace Museum Lecture Series

24 Yu Jian’s Memoir (provisional) Panel Ren Fang Lecturer Date Title

25 The Writing of Mr. Zheng Minzhong’s Biography Individual Zhu Yong Du Naisong January 26 National Treasure and Interpreting their Inscriptions

26 Research on Xu Bangda Individual Wang Zhi Ren Wanping February 23 Qing Emperors during the Spring Festival

Palace Museum academic symposia in 2013 Wang Zilin March 23 Architectural Philosophy of the Forbidden City Origins of Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection, Debates over Its Authenticity, Wang Su April 20 Date Title and Related Calligraphic Works

April 25-26 Academic Symposium Comparing the Court History of the Ming and Qing Dynasties Li Wenru May 18 The Museum Craze and Related Hot Topics

May 11-12 Academic Symposium on Qing Court Operas Yang Jing June 1 Appreciating Ancient : Jade in the Palace Museum Collection

Astounding the Ancients and the Moderns: Appreciating Zisha Ware from Yixing and Yu Fuchun August 10 July 13-14 International Academic Symposium on Court Books and Records and East Asian Cultural Communication the Imperial Collection

On Calligraphy and Paintings in the Forbidden City: Paintings of Human Figures and Jin Yunchang August 24 July 20-21 Academic Symposium on Gugong Studies and Ming and Qing Politics and Culture Landscapes

September 12 Symposium Commemorating the 120th Anniversary of Mr. Sun Yingzhou’s Birth Chen Lihua November 10 A Day in the Life of an Emperor

Song Jirong December 22 The Palace Museum Artefact Hospital

50 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Academic Research And Publications 51 ‘Eternal Forbidden City’ lectures held by the Palace Museum in universities in and outside Beijing on behalf of China. The Palace Museum Painting Catalogues were warmly re- ceived, and the Ming Dynasty Ceramics in the British Museum Collection proj- Lecturer Date Venue Title ect won a grant from the National Publication Foundation. 2013 also saw Rare Imperial Books in the Palace Museum Collection (Issue 1) and Archives of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunica- Yang Jing May 28 Understanding Ancient Jade tions the Imperial Printing Office in the Hall of Martial Valour win funding for ancient book collation and publication projects from the National Office of Ancient Preserving the Magnificent Forbidden City for Shan Jixiang June 5 Zhejiang University Another Six Centuries Books.

‘Forbidden City Lecture’ series

Lecturer Date Title

Shan Jixiang July 5 Preserving the Magnificent Forbidden City For Another Six Centuries

Wang Guangyao August 17 The Origins of Court Porcelain

Guo Fuxiang September 14 Collecting and Appreciating Qing Palace

Foreign Artefacts in the Palace Museum Collection and Sino-Foreign Cultural Communi- October 25 cation Palace Museum Journal, No. 1, 2013 The Forbidden City, 2013

II. Academic Publications The Forbidden City Publishing House has made further progress in editing and publishing the Palace Museum Journal, the Journal of Gugong Stud- ies, The Forbidden City, and the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Mu- seum. In 2013, it published a total of 202 books, of which 151 were new and 51 re-printed. The Classics of the Forbidden City: Jewellery of the Empress and Imperial Concubines in the Collection of the Palace Museum was included in the fourth ‘Three Hundred Original Books’ publishing project organised by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television. Records of the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection Exhibition was named as one of the ‘top ten books on cultural heritage’, while Patterns on Porcelain won the Influential Chinese Book 2013 prize. Avic Club was named as one of the most beautiful books in 2013’s ‘The Beauty of Books in China’, and entered for the ‘Best Book Designs from All Over the World’ competition Journal of Gugong Studies, Vol. 9 Rare Imperial Books in the Palace Museum Collection (Issue 1)

52 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Academic Research And Publications 53 Major books published by the Forbidden City Publishing House in 2013

No. Title Author

1 Unearthed Documents and Han and History Written by Wang Su

Specimens from Ancient Chinese Kiln Sites in the Palace Museum Col- 2 Editor-in-chief: Feng Xiaoqi lection: Beijing, Shandong, , Ningxia, Liaoning Classics of the Forbidden City: Jewellery of the Records of the Preface to the Orchid Pa- Patterns on Porcelain, which won the ‘The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts: Collection of the Victoria and Empress and Imperial Concubines in the Col- vilion Collection Exhibition was named ‘Influential Chinese Book 2013’ prize 3 Compiled by the Palace Museum Albert Museum’: Catalogue of Treasures lection of the Palace Museum was included one of the Top Ten Books on Cultural in the fourth ‘Three Hundred Original Books’ Heritage publishing project 4 Records of the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection Exhibition Editor-in-chief: Li Ji

Treasures of the Palace Museum: The Favourite Cultural Relics of the 5 Editor-in-chief: Shan Jixiang Forbidden City

Compiled by the Chinese Society of 6 Papers from the Chinese Society of the Forbidden City (Issue 7) the Forbidden City

7 Collected Rules and Regulations of the Palace Museum Compiled by the Palace Museum

Selection of Jun Ware: the Palace Museum Collection and Archaeologi- 8 Compiled by the Palace Museum cal Excavation

9 Essence of Antiques: Selection of Sun Yingzhou’s Donations Compiled by the Palace Museum

10 Archives of Qing Palace Furnishings in the Palace Museum Collection Editor-in-chief: Zhu Saihong

11 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2011 Editor-in-chief: Feng Nai’en

12 Journal of Gugong Studies, Vol. 9 Editor-in-chief: Chen Lihua

Complete Works of Ancient Chinese Jade in Folk Collections: Warring 13 Editor-in-chief: Zhou Nanquan States Period, Vol. 1 Palace Museum Painting Catalogue The Palace Museum Cal- endar 2014 14 Stories of ‘Along the River during the Qingming Festival’ Written by Yang Xin, et. al.

Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Calligraphy (5), 15 Editor-in-chief: Jin Yunchang Yuan Dynasty

Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Painting (1), Jin, 16 Editor-in-chief: Yuan Jie Sui, Tang and the Five Dynasties

54 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Academic Research And Publications 55 Classics of the Forbidden City: Life in the Forbidden City of the Qing Editors-in-chief: Wan Yi, Wang 17 Ming and Qing Furniture Appreciation Written by Pu Anguo 35 Dynasty Shuqing and Lu Yanzhen

18 Classics of the Forbidden City: Yixing Zisha Editor-in-chief: Wang Jianhua 36 The Palace Museum Editor-in-chief: Li Wenru

19 Safe Palace Museum · Idea-Action Series: Renchen Collection Written by Shan Jixiang 37 Two Decades of Ming Furniture Written by Grace Wu Bruce

Collection of Historical Materials on the Imperial Workshops of the Hall Selected and compiled by Zhang 20 38 Colours of Porcelain Written by Ma Weidu of Mental Cultivation (Issue 2), Qianlong Reign Rong

21 Statues in the Sanctuary of Buddhist Essence Editor-in-chief: Wang Jiapeng 39 The Palace Museum Painting Catalogue: Landscape, Water Editor-in-chief: Xue Yongnian

Written by Zhu Chengru and Zhang 22 The Qing Dynasty Succession System 40 Interpreting 800 Couplets and Plaques in the Forbidden City Compiled by Li Wenjun Yufen

Written by Shen C.Y. Fu, translated 23 Traces of the Brush: Studies in by Ge Hongzhen

The Research on Celadon of Yue Kiln and White-Glazed Porcelain of Compiled by Ancient Chinese 24 Xing Kiln Ceramics Research Society

25 On the Forbidden City Written by Zhu Jiajin

26 Records of the Forbidden City Written by Zheng Xinmiao

Series of Precious Editions Printed by the Hall of Martial Valour by 27 Compiled by the Palace Museum Imperial Order (thread-bound reproduction)

A Tribute to Hengshan: Wu School Painting Series: the Art of Wen 28 Compiled by Suzhou Museum Zhengming

29 Classics of the Forbidden City: Tibetan Buddhist Sculptures Editor-in-chief: Luo Wenhua

30 The Calligraphy and Painting Gallery of the Palace Museum, Part I Editor-in-chief: Li Shi

31 Classics of the Forbidden City: Architecture of the Forbidden City Editor-in-chief: Yu Zhuoyun

Editors-in-chief: Lü Chenglong and 32 Ceramics Gallery of the Palace Museum Yang Jingrong

33 Classics of the Forbidden City: Bronzes of the Forbidden City Editor-in-chief: Ding Meng

34 Imperial Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties Compiled by Hu Desheng

56 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Academic Research And Publications 57 Education and PUBLICITY

58 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 59 I. Education, Publicity and Voluntary Services The Palace Museum held events to celebrate International Museum Day on May 18 and Chinese Cultural Heritage Day on June 9, and con- tinued to host the Palace Museum Classes programme. During the Chinese Cultural Heritage Day event, volunteers promoted the ‘Non-smoking Pal- ace Museum’ and ‘Safe Palace Museum’ at the Taihemen Tourist Service Centre, and the Palace Museum dismantled some steel sheds in the presence of tourists and media.

Staff and children attending the Eighth Programme of Palace Mu- Children attending the Eighth Programme of Palace Museum Class- seum Classes es present their work

Children attending the Eighth Programme of Palace Museum Classes Summer holiday Palace Museum Class ‘Stories of Jewels’

e continued to hold the Palace Museum Classes, the Palace Mu- Wseum Lectures, special themed activities for International Museum Day and Chinese Cultural Heritage Day, and interactive educational ac- tivities under the Palace Museum brand. In addition, we developed bilin- gual broadcast software and supporting equipment, completed projects to comprehensively improve the Palace Museum tourist area, and organised traditional cultural and educational activities for teachers and Chinese and international youngsters in cooperation with the Chinese Society of Educa- Duanmen Tourist Service Centre tion. In November, we applied to Beijing Government for approval to run the Palace Museum Calligraphy and Painting Training School. Director Shan Jixiang distributing bands to promote non-smoking on May 18, International Museum Day

60 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Education And Publicity 61 In 2013, volunteers provided free interpretation to over 20,000 peo- ple and took part in 29 sessions to promote Palace Museum Culture. The volunteer team of the Palace Museum in Beijing also exchanged ideas with a delegation of volunteers from the Palace Museum in Taipei. Beginning in May the Palace Museum hosted the Forbidden City Lectures on various subjects, using our cultural, scientific, educational and volunteer resources.

‘Discussing Palace Museum Culture, Enjoying the Elegance of the ‘Palace Museum Hour’ activity on May 18, International Museum Qin’ activity on Chinese Cultural Heritage Day Day

A new volunteer taking a test

Volunteers distributing bands to promote non-smoking on May 18, Dismantling a steel shed on Chinese Cultural Heritage Day International Museum Day

‘Palace Museum Culture’ volunteer team in Jiaodaokou Community Symposium for cross-straits volunteers in November 2013

62 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Education And Publicity 63 Major publicity and educational activities held by the Palace Museum in 2013 Number of Date Theme Venue Ty p e Participants

January 30- Eighth Programme of Palace Museum Classes Tours, films, inter- The Palace Museum Over 600 February 2 (theme: ‘The Emperor’s New Year’) active activities

Themed educational activity: ‘Rainbow Interactive activi- February 1 The Palace Museum 10 Clothes: Hand-painted Dragon Robes’ ties

Interactive activi- February 6 ‘Make a Brilliant Lantern Festival’ activity The Palace Museum 10 ties

‘The Forbidden City, My Home’ educational March 28 The Palace Museum 40 Talks, tours programme for children ‘Kids, Realize Your Forbidden City Dream’ activity Donation ceremony for ‘Kids, Realize Your Forbidden City Dream’

Interactive activi- March 31 DIY Court Beads The Palace Museum 24 ties

April 15 Step Into the Forbidden City The Palace Museum 200 Tours, talks

‘Museum (Memory + Creativity) = Social Special themed May 18 The Palace Museum Reform’ themed promotional activity activities

‘Cultural Heritage and Comprehensive Moder- Special themed June 9 The Palace Museum 40 ate Prosperity’ themed promotional activity activities

‘The Forbidden City, My Home’: the Imperial July 16 The Palace Museum 45 Tours, talks Axis

July 18 Experience of Making Rubbings The Palace Museum 10 Art and craft ‘Make a Brilliant Lantern Festival’ activity Making rubbings

July 26 – Lectures, arts and Palace Museum Class: Stories of Jewels The Palace Museum 319 families August 17 crafts

Lectures, interac- July 30 Tracing the Origin of Porcelain Shards The Palace Museum 38 tive activities

200 students Talks, observation, October 27 ‘The Forbidden City, My Home’: fieldwork The Palace Museum and families experiencing

November 27 – ‘Kids, Realize Your Forbidden City Dream’ Mountainous area in Films, lectures, Over 120 November 30 activity Guizhou arts and crafts

Qing court style fan painted by children Beijing Huiwen Middle School: a class in Ceramics Gallery of the Palace Museum

64 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Education And Publicity 65 II. Education and Training

1. Compiling calligraphy textbook for primary and middle schools The Palace Museum Calligraphy and Painting Educational Centre and the Calligraphy Committee of Henan Education Society jointly com- piled Calligraphy Practice and Guidance, an experimental textbook meeting the standards for the nine years of compulsory education.

2. Applying for approval for the Palace Museum Calligraphy and Painting Training School In November, we submitted our application to Beijing government departments for approval to establish the Palace Museum Calligraphy and Painting Training School, with the aim of better performing the educational functions of the Palace Museum, grading calligraphy and painting levels and organising training.

3. Implementing the ‘Three Rarities Lecture’ plan for training calligraphy teachers for primary and middle schools This training was chiefly divided into two parts: firstly, lectures on cal- ligraphy and traditional culture; secondly, practical calligraphy activities. The first session ended in July, and the second one started in October.

4. Strengthening strategic cooperation with schools and other organisations We held a ceremony to mark the signing of a strategic cooperation agreement with the Chinese Society of Education, with both sides agreeing Signing ceremony between the Palace Museum and the Chinese Society of Education to conduct various traditional cultural and educational activities for teachers and Chinese and international youngsters so as to widely promote tradi- tional .

66 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Education And Publicity 67 THE DIGITAL PALACE MUSEUM

68 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 69 the display of four heritage building locations (including the Sanctuary of Buddhist Essence) and three exhibition halls (including the Ceramics Gal- lery) through 360° panoramic displays and interactive images or videos; we completed the concept presentation and prepared for meeting the de- sign requirements for the Gate of Correct Deportment’s digital exhibition hall; determined themes for two digital exhibitions: ‘The Forbidden City is a Museum’ and ‘The Gathering of the Three Rarities’; we developed a mobile device-based App named ‘Digital Guide to the Hall of Literary Brilliance’; we made the hi-definition video for the ‘Qing Imperial Birth- day Celebrations (1644-1911)’ exhibition and played it in the exhibition hall; and we completed the development of the Palace Museum Electronic Guide System version 3.0. We developed four Apps: ‘A Day in the Life of an Emperor’, ‘Qing Emperors’ Costumes’, ‘Auspicious Patterns in the Forbidden City’, and ‘The Night Banquet of Han Xizai’, all scheduled for launch in the first half of 2014. The iPad App ‘Beauties Painted on Yinzhen’s Screens’ was honoured by App Store as an outstanding Chinese App of 2013 and was a runner-up App in Hong Kong, and Singapore, and an outstanding educational Poster of the cartoon image for the Palace Museum website for youngsters App in Indonesia and Thailand.

he building of the digital Palace Museum progressed steadily, and was Tinnovatively coordinated with the ‘Safe Palace Museum’ project with the aim of providing visitors with more convenient services and a smoother experience. We also made progress in organising the results of previous work, improved the planning text for the digitisation of the Palace Museum, and made a plan for the future development of the digital Palace Museum.

I. Platform for Promoting Culture We did the following work in 2013: we completed our preliminary plan, and designed a cartoon image for the Palace Museum website for youngsters; worked out the initial plan for the English website; built the ‘Micro Palace Museum’ platform; launched the museum’s official public Launching the museum’s public WeChat account Palace Museum Apps WeChat account on December 28; officially released the Forbidden City Cultural Heritage Conservation Foundation website on April 1; completed

70 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 The Digital Palace Museum 71 II. Technology Research The year 2013 marked the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Institute for Digitisation of the Palace Museum Heritage. It officially completed the fifth VR programme Lingzhao Belvedere, and started the sixth VR programme The Corner Watchtower. The VR Studio received 6,323 visi- tors in 266 groups in 2013. The digital miniature of 2013 was completed, and the inventory and digitisation of glass plates was started. We carried out research on converting VR works to Apps. With regard to the five-year project of digitally record- ing the garden of the Palace of Tranquil Longevity, Phase 4 was completed in 2013. The collection of photographs of historical buildings in the second courtyard was completed, with a total of 2,800 photographs taken.

Lingzhao Belvedere restored through VR

Collecting materials for creating VR pro- gramme The Corner Watchtower 3D model of the Palace of Tranquil Longevity garden

72 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 The Digital Palace Museum 73 COOPERATION AND EXCHANGES

74 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 75 he Palace Museum organised the second ‘Night at the Palace Museum Tfor Diplomats’. In 2013, we received three visits from heads of state I. Cooperation and Exchanges with Other Countries and prime ministers as well as five groups of 143 foreign dignitaries from all and Regions over the world. At the invitation of the Palace Museum in Beijing, a delega- tion from the Palace Museum in Taipei visited us, and we held a symposium 1. Agreements on cooperation and exchanges with other to exchanges ideas on our work in 2013. This continued the strong trend museums towards in-depth communication between the two sides from 2009, and The Palace Museum signed a letter of intent with the Civic and Mu- pointed out the direction for strengthening communication and coopera- nicipal Affairs Bureau of the Macao S.A.R., with both sides agreeing to tion over the next few years. strengthen cooperation in cultural heritage exhibition, conservation and training. The signing of the document means that the Palace Museum, the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau of the Macao S.A.R., and the Macao Museum of Art will intensify their efforts to cooperate more broadly, ex- panding on the more limited previous exhibitions and academic communi- cation.

François Hollande, President of , visits the Palace Museum Premier Li Keqiang accompanies Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister on April 26, 2013 of India, on a visit to the Palace Museum on October 23, 2013

Directors of the Palace Museums in Beijing and Taipei answer Li Ji, Executive Deputy Director of the Palace Museum, meets a pro- questions from the media fessor from the UK’s Durham University at the Studio of Cleansing Fragrance Director Shan Jixiang and the Municipal Affairs Bureau of the Macao S.A.R. signing strategic letter of intent

76 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Cooperation And Exchanges 77 3. ‘Night at the Palace Museum for Diplomats’ On September 18, representatives and officials from the United Na- tions in China were invited to visit the Palace Museum. With the title ‘the Forbidden City and the Palace Museum’, Director Shan Jixiang’s talk intro- duced the work of the Palace Museum in detail to these guests.

4. ICOM International Training Centre for Museum Studies The museum hosted a ceremony to celebrate the establishment of the ICOM International Training Centre for Museum Studies, as well as its first symposium. Staff attended the 23rd ICOM Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, and reported on the progress and achievements of the Training Centre. The ICOM International Training Centre for Museum Studies organised its first training seminar. Adopting the theme ‘the best museum management prac- tice for a pluralistic and ever-changing world’, we invited many experts in Establishment of the ICOM International the museum field to give lectures, some from China and others from Ger- Training Centre for Museum Studies many, the Netherlands, , , Canada, and South Africa. The course integrated lectures, discussions, visits, surveys and fieldwork. A total of 33 trainees attended the seminar, including 17 from the international Yan Yong attending the International Conference on the History of Embroidery Art in in the Republic of Korea community.

2. Communication and Training Links with Overseas Organisations During 2013, nine groups of experts and scholars from the Pal- ace Museum participated in international-level academic exchanges and meetings, with support from various public funds. For example, Yan Yong, Deputy Director of the Court Department, went to the Republic of Korea to attend the International Conference on the History of Embroidery Art in East Asia at the invitation of the of Korea. Hou Jiayu from the Conservation Department went to study in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain, where she took part in academic exchanges and completed experiments. The first ICOM-ITC training seminar The first ICOM-ITC training course

78 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Cooperation And Exchanges 79 2. The All Complete Qianlong: the Aesthetic Tastes of the Qing II. Exhibitions Abroad / Outside the Chinese Mainland Emperor Gaozong (joint exhibition) Date: October 7, 2013 – January 7, 2014 1. The Splendours of Royal Costume: Qing Court Attire Venue: Palace Museum in Taipei Date: July 31 – October 7, 2013 Number of exhibits: 42 sets (45 items) Venue: Hong Kong Museum of History Number of exhibits: 136 items (or sets)

Installing ‘The All Complete Qianlong: the Aesthetic Tastes of the Qing Emperor Gaozong’ exhibition

3. Splendorous Landscapes - Paintings by Wang Jian, Wang Hui and the Yushan School from the Palace Museum and Shanghai Museum Date: September 5 – November 17, 2013 Venue: Macao Museum of Art Preparing for ‘The Splendours of Royal Costume: Qing Court Attire’ Number of exhibits: 152 items

Assistant Director Lou Wei attends press conference for ‘Splen- Assistant Director Lou Wei visits ‘Splendorous Landscapes - Paint- dorous Landscapes - Paintings by Wang Jian, Wang Hui and the ings by Wang Jian, Wang Hui and the Yushan School from the Pal- Historical costumes at ‘The Splendours of Royal Costume: Qing Court Attire’ Yushan School from the Palace Museum and Shanghai Museum’ ace Museum and Shanghai Museum’

80 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Cooperation And Exchanges 81 4. Taste and Essence: Historical Tea Pieces from the Collection 6. Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 – 1900 (joint of the Palace Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition) Date: December 14, 2013 – March 9, 2014 Date: October 26, 2013 – January 19, 2014 Venue: Macao Museum of Art Venue: Victoria and Albert Museum Number of exhibits: 120 items (or sets) Number of exhibits: 10 items (or sets)

Exhibition hall for ‘Taste and Essence’ Exhibition hall for ‘Taste and Essence’

5. The Treasures of China (joint exhibition) Installing ‘Masterpieces of Chinese Paint- Date: November 20, 2012 – February 20, 2013 ing 700 – 1900’ exhibition April 29 – August 12, 2013 Venue: Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, Turkey National History Museum of Romania Number of exhibits: 33 items (or sets)

Artefact from the Palace Museum dis - played at ‘Masterpieces of Chinese Paint- Exhibition hall for ‘The Treasures of China’ Exhibition hall for ‘The Treasures of China’ ing 700 – 1900’

82 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Cooperation And Exchanges 83 Financial Statement

84 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 85 1. Revenue Unit: 10,000 Yuan (RMB) Item Actual Amount Notes

Financial subsidy 55520.00

Institutional income 5443.28

Operational income 1287.86

Other income 1976.06

Total 64227.20

2. Expenditure Unit: 10,000 Yuan (RMB) Item Actual Amount Notes

Institutional expenses 60379.02

Basic expenses 27139.44

Project expenses 33239.58

Costs of protection and maintenance of heritage buildings 12151.19

Costs of protection of artefacts in the Palace Museum collection 2358.34

Construction of the Digital Palace Museum 1566.99 The Editing Committee of The Palace Museum Acquisition of artefacts 238.19 ※Director: Shan Jixiang ※Deputy Director: Li Ji Maintenance of public areas 4853.00 ※members: Ji Tianbin, Wang Yamin, Chen Lihua, Exhibitions, publicity and education 1771.53 Song Jirong, Feng Nai’en, Lou wei

‘Safe Palace Museum’ project 10300.34 Team for Compilation Chief: Zhu Hongwen Operational expenses 297.62 ※ ※Assistant Chief: Duan Ying Total 60676.64 ※Editor: Ma Xiangyu

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