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Big crowds turned out in 1975 to see “Archaeological Finds of the People’s Republic of China.” | Opinion

Centuries before the US opioid crisis, foreign forces — the museums’ benefactors among them — drove China’s opium addiction.

Exhibition of artefacts of 19th-century opium trade includes training for visitors on dealing with overdoses

Today, the a href= http://www.harvardartmuseums.org target= _blank Harvard Art Museums /a opens an exhibition that explores the entangled historie

What the hit biopic gets right - and wrong - about the American Prometheus.

The poison apple; that meeting with Einstein; his appalling diet. What the hit biopic gets right – and wrong – about the American Prometheus

And other revelations from our conversation with Hiromi Kinoshita, Philadelphia Museum of Arts’ curator of Chinese art, who walked us through “Oneness: Nature & Connectivity in Chinese Art.”

Legends say that ghosts of fallen Mongol soldiers haunt the ruins of Khara Khoto in the Gobi Desert. It’s certainly not your typical abandoned city.

Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback, and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen? The China Collectors is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's