http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Arts/english/news/enews_20070401_5.html
As part of the celebrations commemorating the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China, the Museum of Art opened this show last night.
Unlike so many "greatest hits of Chinese antiquities" exhibitions that tour the world, the items that China loaned to Hong Kong this time are really some of the finest specimens of calligraphy and painting owned by Beijing's Palace Museum.
These works are so valuable and so prized that they are only rarely ever seen by the public and certainly not together. Scholars devote good portions of their careers exclusively to studying some of these pieces.
And if words could be worth a thousand pictures, the opening ceremony said plenty. All the speeches and introductions were in Mandarin. No English and no Cantonese were used. Hong Kong's chief executive Donald Tsang, whose first language is not Mandarin, gave his remarks in the impressive formal declamation style favored by the mainland's political elite.
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