(This article was published in the Shenzhen Daily on August 29, 2016.)
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| A replica of a Dunhuang painting of Prince Sattva and the Tiger by Chinese painter Guan Shanyue at the Shenzhen museum named for him |
I have never had the opportunity to visit the famous Mogao Caves at Dunhuang, Gansu. So I was especially excited when the Guan Shanyue Museum in Shenzhen shared a traveling exhibit of Dunhuang art back in 2011. The connection was this: Guangdong-born artist Guan Shanyue had visited Dunhuang on an art tour of China's West in the early 1940s, and painted a number of things he saw there.
