Editing National Palace Museum (section)

===In Taiwan===
{{main|Retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan}}

The [[Chinese Civil War]] resumed following the surrender of the Japanese, ultimately resulting in Generalissimo [[Chiang Kai-shek]]'s decision to evacuate the arts to Taiwan, which had been [[Retrocession of Taiwan|handed over]] to the ROC in 1945. When the fighting worsened in 1948 between the [[People's Liberation Army|Communist]] and [[Republic of China Armed Forces|Nationalist]] armies, the National Beijing Palace Museum and other five institutions made the decision to send some of the most prized items to Taiwan.<ref name="Hang">{{Cite book |script-title=zh:中華文物播遷記 |last=Hang |first=Li-wu |author-link1=Han Lih-wu|year=1983 |edition=2 |publisher=The Commercial Press |location=Taipei |language=zh}}</ref> [[Hang Li-wu]], later director of the museum, supervised the transport of some of the collection in three groups from [[Nanjing]] to the harbor in [[Keelung]], Taiwan between December 1948 and February 1949. By the time the items arrived in Taiwan, the Communist army had already seized control of the National Palace Museum collection from Beijing, so not all of the collection could be sent to Taiwan. A total of 2,972 crates of artifacts from the Forbidden City moved to Taiwan accounted for only 22% of the crates originally transported south, although the pieces represented some of the very best of the collection.

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|+Three shipments from Nanjing to Keelung between 1948 and 1949<ref name="Hang"/>
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! rowspan="2"|Institutions !! colspan="3" style="width: 180px;"|Number of crates in shipments !! rowspan="2" style="width: 60px;"|Total
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! style="width: 60px;"|1 || style="width: 60px;"|2 || style="width: 60px;"|3
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|style="text-align: left;"|National Beijing Palace Museum || 320 || 1,680 || 972 || 2,972
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|style="text-align: left;"|National Central Museum || 212 || 486 || 154 || 852
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|style="text-align: left;"|National Central Library || 60 || 462 || 122 || 644
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|style="text-align: left;"|The {{tooltip|IHP|Institute of History and Philosophy}} of [[Academia Sinica]] || 120 || 856 || || 976
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Republic of China)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] || 60 || || || 60
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|style="text-align: left;"|National Beijing Library || || 18 || || 18
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!Total !! 772 !! 3,502 !! 1,248 !! 5,522
|}
The collection from the National Beijing Palace Museum, the Preparatory Office of the [[Nanjing Museum|National Central Museum]], the [[Nanjing Library|National Central Library]], and the [[National Library of China|National Beijing Library]] was stored in a railway warehouse in [[Yangmei District|Yangmei]] following transport across the [[Taiwan Strait]] and was later moved to storage in a [[cane sugar mill]] near [[Taichung]].<ref name="Hang" /> In 1949, the [[Executive Yuan]] created the Joint Managerial Office for the National Beijing Palace Museum, the Preparatory Office of the National Central Museum, and the National Central Library, to oversee the organization of the collection.<ref name="chronology" /> For security reasons, the Joint Managerial Office chose the mountain village of Beigou, located in [[Wufeng, Taichung]], as the new storage site for the collection.<ref name="Hang" /> The following year, the collection stored at the cane sugar mill was transported to the new site in Beigou.<ref name="hctt">{{cite news |author1=Han Cheung |date=7 November 2021 |title=Taiwan in Time: Hiding national treasures in a cave |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2021/11/07/2003767451 |access-date=7 November 2021 |work=Taipei Times}}</ref>
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With the [[National Central Library]]'s reinstatement in 1955, the collection from the National Beijing Library was simultaneously incorporated into the National Central Library.<ref name="Hang" /> The Joint Managerial Office of the National Beijing Palace Museum and the Preparatory Office of the National Central Museum stayed in Beigou for another ten years. During the decade, the office obtained a grant from [[the Asia Foundation]] to construct a small-scale exhibition hall in the spring of 1956.<ref name="npm">{{Citation |title=A Brief History of the National Palace Museum |journal=The National Palace Museum Quarterly |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=29–32, 85–89 |year=1966 |language=en, zh}}</ref> The exhibition hall, opened in March 1957, was divided into four galleries in which it was possible to exhibit more than 200 items.

In the autumn of 1960, the office received a grant of [[New Taiwan dollar|NT$]]32 million from [[United States Agency for International Development|AID]].<ref name="npm" /> The [[Taiwan|Republic of China]] (ROC) government also contributed more than NT$30 million to establish a special fund for the construction of a museum in the [[Taipei]] suburb of Waishuanxi. The construction of the museum in Waishuanxi was completed in August 1965.<ref name="tradition" /> The new museum site was christened the "Chung-Shan Museum" in honor of the founding father of the ROC, [[Sun Yat-sen]], and first opened to the public on the centenary of Sun Yat-sen's birthday. Since then, the museum in Taipei has managed, conserved and exhibited the collections of the National Beijing Palace Museum and the Preparatory Office of the National Central Museum.