China State Museum Opens in Hong Kong Amid Patriotism Drive
HONG KONG (AP) — China's famed Palace Museum opened a branch in Hong Kong Sunday amid
Works of calligraphy and paintings on silk dating back more than 1,000 years featured heavily in
the exhibition, housed in a seven-story building in a newly developed harborside arts district.
The delicate artworks will be returned to Beijing for safekeeping after 30 days, but China's
Communist Party leaders want the exhibition's cultural and political impact to linger for far longer.
The opening of the exhibition came just two days after China’s leader Xi Jinping marked the
anniversary of Hong Kong’s return with a visit to what is officially called the special autonomous
region and a speech emphasizing Beijing’s control under its vision of “one country, two systems.”
Xi praised the city for overcoming “violent social unrest” – a reference to massive pro-democracy