ABOUT-FACE:Former National Palace Museum director Feng Ming-chu referred to the establishment as the ‘Taipei’ museum after accepting a job at a Beijing museum
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 11, 2016
By: Yang Yuan-ting and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Former National Palace Museum director Feng Ming-chu’s (馮明珠) decision to change regulations to
Former National Palace Museum director Feng Ming-chu is pictured in an undated photograph. Photo: Lin Yi-chang, Taipei Times
reduce the time period during which retired museum officials are barred from visiting China after leaving their posts was an “autonomous violation of regulations,” the Mainland Affairs Council said yesterday.
The council issued a statement after a meeting with government agencies, and the museum is expected to repeal the change and reinstate the original waiting period.
In accordance with the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (臺灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例), the museum required its former staff to seek approval from a review committee consisting of officials from the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Interior, the National Security Bureau and the council before visiting China within three years of leaving government service.
However, according to the museum’s internal documents, Feng signed an official document on April 15 asking that the threshold be reduced to “within one year of leaving government service” and sent it to the National Immigration Agency on May 4. [FULL STORY]
