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National Palace Museum

With jade-green tiled roofs and yellow walls that loom dramatically out of a mountain valley north of downtown Taipei, the museum holds one of the largest collections of Chinese artifacts and artwork in the world, including the famous Jade Cabbage—a piece of jade carved to resemble a head of cabbage—and a boat carved out of an olive pit.

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From Travel + Leisure , FEB 2009

Of course Taiwan, which parted ways with Communist China in 1949, has been modern for a long time. It had built an industrial economy by the 1970's, when China was still a largely rural and poor country coping with the devastation caused by Mao Tse-tung ...MORE>>

– Pankaj Mishra Taipei, Taiwan Today

Last updated February 2009