Books, Arts & Manners: China on the March

Politicians, not to mention NR readers, may still be debating the pros and cons of American recognition of the People’s Republic of China; but for art lovers there’s no argument: it’s a clear plus, if only for the extraordinary exhibition, The Great Bronze Age of China, currently gracing the Metropolitan Museum. Though not as glaringly spectacular as the over-publicized King Tut extrav

aganza (there’s no gold, for instance, nor, so far as is known, are there any mysterious curses associated with the royal tombs from which most of the exhibits were disinterred), it presents an art as beautiful as it is, to most of us, unfamiliar, and deserves to be a crowd-puller not just in New York but on its stops in Chicago, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, and Boston, where it will wind up its tour in September 1981.

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Politicians, not to mention NR readers, may still be debating the pros and cons of American recognition of the People’s Republic of China; but for art lovers there’s no argument: it’s a clear plus, if only for the extraordinary exhibition, The Great Bronze Age of China, currently gracing the Metropolitan Museum. Though not as glaringly spectacular as the over-publicized King Tut extrav

aganza (there’s no gold, for instance, nor, so far as is known, are there any mysterious curses associated with the royal tombs from which most of the exhibits were disinterred), it presents an art as beautiful as it is, to most of us, unfamiliar, and deserves to be a crowd-puller not just in New York but on its stops in Chicago, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, and Boston, where it will wind up its tour in September 1981.