Ian Johnson, At China’s Grand New Museum, History Toes the Party Line. New York Times, Apr 4, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/world/asia/04museum.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=china%20museum&st=cse
("But if their [visitors'] interests run to the Cultural Revolution that tore the country apart from 1966 to 1976 and resulted in millions of deaths, they will have to search a back corner of the two-million-square-foot museum, which will complete its opening this month, for a single photograph and three lines of text that are the only reference to that era")
Note:
(a) National Museum of China 中国国家博物馆
http://www.chnmuseum.cn/
Through merger of the Museum of Chinese History 中国历史博物馆 and the Museum of the Chinese Revolution 中国革命博物馆.
(b) YANG Jisheng 杨 继绳 (墓碑 author)
(c) Hung Chang-tai 洪長泰 (新文化史與中國政治 author)
(d) The report states, "The National Museum has its roots in the Communist Party’s desire for a legacy. In his memoirs, Wang Yeqiu, who would become the museum’s director, recalls joining Communist troops as they entered Beijing in 1949 and making straight for a prison to secure a scaffold used in 1927 to hang one of the party’s founding members. The scaffold became the first item in the museum’s collection. But its opening in 1959 was marred by a problem that would haunt it to the present — politics.
(i) WANG Yeqiu 王 冶秋 (1909-1987)
(ii) 张作霖杀害李大钊等革命志士用的绞刑架. National Museum of China.
http://www.chnmuseum.cn/tabid/212/Default.aspx?AntiqueLanguageID=1366
Ian Johnson, At China’s Grand New Museum, History Toes the Party Line. New York Times, Apr 4, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/world/asia/04museum.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=china%20museum&st=cse
("But if their [visitors'] interests run to the Cultural Revolution that tore the country apart from 1966 to 1976 and resulted in millions of deaths, they will have to search a back corner of the two-million-square-foot museum, which will complete its opening this month, for a single photograph and three lines of text that are the only reference to that era")
Note:
(a) National Museum of China 中国国家博物馆
http://www.chnmuseum.cn/
Through merger of the Museum of Chinese History 中国历史博物馆 and the Museum of the Chinese Revolution 中国革命博物馆.
(b) YANG Jisheng 杨 继绳 (墓碑 author)
(c) Hung Chang-tai 洪長泰 (新文化史與中國政治 author)
(d) The report states, "The National Museum has its roots in the Communist Party’s desire for a legacy. In his memoirs, Wang Yeqiu, who would become the museum’s director, recalls joining Communist troops as they entered Beijing in 1949 and making straight for a prison to secure a scaffold used in 1927 to hang one of the party’s founding members. The scaffold became the first item in the museum’s collection. But its opening in 1959 was marred by a problem that would haunt it to the present — politics.
(i) WANG Yeqiu 王 冶秋 (1909-1987)
(ii) 张作霖杀害李大钊等革命志士用的绞刑架. National Museum of China.
http://www.chnmuseum.cn/tabid/212/Default.aspx?AntiqueLanguageID=1366