A Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) painting "Jiangnan Spring" by Qiu Ying is donated to the Nanjing Museum by Pang's descendants.
The National Cultural Heritage Administration and the Jiangsu provincial government's decision to launch an investigation into the management and handling of donated cultural relics at the Nanjing Museum is both timely and necessary, given the controversy over how the museum deals with donated collections.
At the center of the controversy is Jiangnan Spring, a landscape painting long believed to have been done by Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) artist Qiu Ying a
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