The Palace Museum Through Foreign Eyes

摘要

A look at the grand Palace Museum of China through foreign diplomats’photography.“The sundial was an important instrument to keep track of time in ancient China.Western clocks and watches began to enter the Chinese royal palace in the late Ming Dynasty(1368-1644),and to date,there are more than 1,000 Western timepieces collected at the Palace Museum of China.”“The past and the present,East and West…all intertwined to bear witness of time.”