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When the KMT left China for Taiwan they carried a (figurative) boat load of Chinese Cultural Masterpieces with them. Those objects are still in Taiwan and Chin
by entropicgravity 5y ago
When the KMT left China for Taiwan they carried a (figurative) boat load of Chinese Cultural Masterpieces with them. Those objects are still in Taiwan and China (I'm not a fan of the current administration) deserve to have them returned. Why trade those objects back to China in return for independence?
- mc32 5y agoHad they left them behind, there's a good Chance Mao's PLA, red guards, or workers' unions would have destroyed 'symbols of oppression' or 'symbols of bourgeois' or 'anti-proletarian symbols'. In any event, they would have been symbols of the Four Olds [旧思想 旧文化 旧风俗 & 旧习惯)] which needed to be extirpated. They went so far as denounce, burn and destroy historic statues of emperors, buddhas, etc. So... maybe not.