A scandal at the Nanjing Museum involving a Ming masterpiece, millions in laundered money and missing art donations recently set off alarms in the art world. Correspondent Richard Spencer of The Times (London) talked to Professor Katharine Burnett about the inquiry and scandal in his article “The Chinese museum, the Ming masterpiece and the missing millions.” Burnett  recently published a book on the collector Pang Yuanji (Shaping Chinese Art History: Pang Yuanji and His Painting Collection, 2020).

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