Expo on Richard Nixon's China visit opens in Beijing

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 ◆ Expo on Richard Nixon's China visit opens in Beijing

A free exhibition named "Journeys to Peace and Cooperation" opened at the Museum of Chinese History in Beijing recently, to mark the 30th anniversary of former US President Richard Nixon's "ice-breaking" China visit in 1972.

The show was jointly organized by the Chinese Ministry of Culture, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of China, and the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation. The Reader's Digest Foundation sponsored the exhibition.

According to the organizers, the show includes about 200 artifacts, including pictures, original handwriting, clothes, presents and formally classified government documents.

The organizers also produced two documentary films. Julie Nixon Eisenhower, daughter of the former US president, narrates one film that commemorates her father's historic visit to China. The other, produced by China, reviews Nixon's visit and covers the subsequent exchanges of visit between leaders of the two countries in the following years.

The show closes in Beijing on Nov. 30 and runs in Shanghai on Dec. 11-17. It will be on display in the United States in January next year.