Out now: Series on Chinese cultural relics abroad

Lin Shuzhong (1926-2014), a professor with Nanjing University of the Arts, visited many museums in the United States in 1985. He was on a yearlong assignment to teach the history of Chinese painting at a university. He came across collections of rare and ancient Chinese paintings and antiquities at US, and later, other foreign museums. He kept a record of what he saw.

For dozens of years he traveled extensively across Asia, the US and Europe. His findings were published in an eight-volume series in 1996, which introduced more than 2,000 Chinese paintings to his readers.

Lin's efforts raised public awareness on the status of Chinese relics abroad.