3-100-712 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

Percival David, Exhibition Director; Zheng Tianxin (Dr F.T. Cheng), Special Commissioner of the Chinese Government and Zhuang Shangyan (Chuang Shang-Yen) and Tang Xifen (Tang Hsi Fen), Secretaries accompanying objects, 1935. Officials unpacking artefacts from trunk labelled 'Handle with Care'. The 'International Exhibition of Chinese Art' was held at the Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London, from November 1935-March 1936. Cheng Tien-hsi (1884-1970), thrid from left, was a Chinese author, jurist, and the last ambassador of the Republic of China to the United Kingdom.