Royal Toronto Museum's (ROM's) Chinese collection, Since 1914

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Lee Lawrence, In Toronto, the Gateway to Ancient China. Wall Street Journal, Aug 14, 2013.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 02992479015418.html

Note:
(a) CHEN Shen 陈 深, Vice President, Senior Curator (Bishop White Chair of East Asian Archaeology), ROM, undated.
http://www.rom.on.ca/en/collections-research/rom-staff/chen-shen
(b) "Do what Dorothy Wong of the University of Virginia did when researching a book on Chinese steles. Remember the ROM."

Dorothy C Wang, associate professor of History of Art and Architecture at University of Virginia (PhD, Harvard 1995), does not have a Chinese name.
(c) "the replicated burial mound of Gen. Zu Dashou, who died in 1656. In 1921, [fur trader George] Crofts shipped the tomb reliefs and statuary to the ROM, where they are displayed not as isolated artworks but as a reconstructed ensemble, inviting visitors to enter the burial compound as mourners once did. We walk through a gate between reliefs of qilin, mythical animals with leonine bodies, horns, dragonlike heads and skin bristling with scales. As they did in the Han, the mythical animals signal our passage from the secular to the sacred. On the other side, the reliefs both on the gateway and the mound itself depict the heavenly world—frolicking deer, swooping birds, playful monkeys and, in between scenes of Taoist immortals enjoying eternity, the familiar sinuous figures of dragons."
(i) ZU Dashou  祖 大壽
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A5%96%E5%A4%A7%E5%A3%BD
(ii) Iconic: Ming Tomb. ROM, Aug 29, 2012 (video clip)
http://www.rom.on.ca/en/collecti ... el/iconic-ming-tomb
(iii) Tomb of General Zu Dashou (Ming Tomb)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_General_Zu_Dashou_(Ming_Tomb)

(d) The WSJ museum review does not say much. But it is worthwhile to view the photo of General Zu's tomb.