Clearing the air

Zheng Xinmiao, curator of the Palace Museum in Beijing, responds to the 10 scandals the museum has been involved in recently.

Burglary

At midnight on May 8, nine modern gold and silver purses (pictured right) and cosmetic containers, on loan from a private Hong Kong museum, were stolen from the Hall of Abstinence (Zhai Gong). Two were found soon after in a corner of the museum, but had been damaged.