Editing National Palace Museum (section)

===In Mainland China===
[[File:National Palace Treasure Crates 1930s.jpg|right|thumb|The National Palace Museum treasure fleeing Japanese forces in the 1930s]]
The National Palace Museum was originally established as the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City on 10 October 1925, shortly after the expulsion of [[Puyi]],<ref name="chronology">{{cite web |url=http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/about/chronology.htm |title=Chronology of Events |access-date=4 June 2008 |publisher=National Palace Museum |archive-date=21 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221111845/http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/about/chronology.htm}}</ref><ref name="tradition">{{Cite web |title=Tradition & Continuity |url=http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/about/tradition.htm |publisher=National Palace Museum |access-date=17 June 2012 |archive-date=30 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630004019/http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/about/tradition.htm}}</ref> the last emperor of China, from the Forbidden City by warlord [[Feng Yuxiang]]. The articles in the museum consisted of the valuables of the [[House of Aisin-Gioro|former imperial family]].

In 1931, shortly after the [[Mukden Incident]], the [[Nationalist Government]] ordered the museum to make preparations to evacuate its most valuable pieces out of the city to prevent them from falling into the hands of the [[Imperial Japanese Army]]. As a result, from 6 February to 15 May 1933, the Palace Museum's 13,491 crates and 6,066 crates of objects from the Exhibition Office of Ancient Artifacts, the [[Summer Palace]] and the [[Hanlinyuan|Imperial Hanlin Academy]] were moved in five groups to [[Shanghai]].<ref name="Chiang">{{Citation|last=Chiang|first=Fu-tsung|title=The Transfer of the National Palace Museum Collection to Taiwan and Its Subsequent Installation|journal=The National Palace Museum Quarterly|volume=14|issue =1|year=1979|pages=1–16, 37–43|language=en, zh}}</ref> In 1936, the collection was moved to [[Nanjing]] after the construction of the storage in the [[Taoism|Taoist]] monastery [[Chaotian Palace]] was complete.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npm.gov.tw/exh96/orientation/index3_2_en.html|title=The National Palace Museum: Timeline of the NPM|date=May 2007 |publisher=National Palace Museum|access-date=20 December 2010|archive-date=17 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217121128/http://www.npm.gov.tw/exh96/orientation/index3_2_en.html}}</ref> As the Imperial Japanese Army advanced farther inland during the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], which merged into the greater conflict of World War II, the collection was moved westward via three routes to several places including [[Anshun]] and [[Leshan]] until the [[surrender of Japan]] in 1945. In 1947, it was shipped back to the warehouse in Nanjing.