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Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1970. Paper covers, 5 pp: Preface and Contents; 31 pp of text in English; 46 pp of Text in Chinese, 40 unnumbered pages of black and white plates : 26 cm. Text in English and Chinese. Official catalog for the Special Exhibition of Paintings from the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, held at the National Palace Museum in Taipei in June 1970. The exhibition was organized to coincide with the International Symposium on Chinese Painting, a significant cultural and scholarly event attended by over 100 Chinese and international experts. The symposium built upon a five-year period of museum expansion and the ongoing Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement. In acceptable+ condition. Illustrated paper covers have some chipping and tearing to paper over the spine which has been repaired with clear (but aging) tape. Light bumping and creasing to edges of covers and light overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Binding is still solid. Pages are lightly age but otherwise unmarked. Not Ex-library. [From Preface] Since the establishment of the National Palace Museum in Taipei on the centennial anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen (Father of the Republic) in 1965, we have expanded and developed many new galleries and these as well as proposed facilities will all be co-ordinated and directed according to the latest scientific methods. During this five year period, we also have published numerous collections of Chinese art objects to assist and promote the Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement. With these publications and the completion of the Museum's expansion program, the next phase in our ever-continuing developmental process will concentrate on research. In 1968 we held a seminar on Chinese Porcelain. This June we will convene a Symposium on Chinese Painting. The symposium will allow the participants, through the various exhibitions and discussions, to realize and more deeply appreciate the full artistic value of the entire Museum collection and this in turn will prove to be a significant milestone not only in our own renaissance movement but also in the cultural interflow between East and West. This International Symposium of Chinese painting will be held June 18 - 24th, 1970, and more than one hundred Chinese and foreign scholars will attend the various conferences. For the symposium we have supplemented our own museum collections with some famous paintings from later Ming and early Ch'ing artists which have been extended to us on loan from noted private collections. They will be included in a special exhibition of Ming-Ch'ing works. These paintings, by renowned monks of the early Ch'ing, were neglected by the Manchu court and thus very few found their way into the palace collection. . . These paintings are the works of over thirty artists who were most famous during the period covering the fall of the Ming dynasty and early years of the Ch'ing, such as: Lan Ying, Yun Hsiang, Ni Yuan-lu, Wang Shih-min, Yang Wen-ts'ung, Ch'en Hung-shou, Fu Shan, Hu Yu-K'un (undated), Chang Feng (undated), Shao Mi (undated), Ch'eng Sui (undated), Mei Ch'ing (undated), Cha Shih-piao (undated), Fan Ch'i (undated), Kao Ts'en (undated), Kung Hsien (undated), Ch'eng Cheng-k'uei (undated), Tai Pen-hsiao (undated), Mei Ch'ing (undated), Pa-ta-shan-jen (undated), Shih-ch-i (undated), Shih-t'ao (undated), Wo Li (undated), Wang Hui (undated), Wang Wu (undated), Yun Shou-p'ing (undated), Wang Yuan-ch'i (undated), Wang Yuan-ch'i (extended), Yü Chih-ting (undated).About one half of the paintings included in this special exhibition are the works of noted monks: Pa-ta-shan-jen, Shih-t'ao and Shih-ch'i in early Ch'ing. The museum has numerous paintings of the four Wangs, Wu and Yün but we also have selected a few rare works from private collections. We are sorry that we will be unable to show all the paintings due to the limited space. A total of seventy eight paintings will be on exhibition for one month. We have published this catalogue to introduce Ming-Ch'ing artists with selected reproductions arranged according to the "Ku-kung-shu-hua lu".