VIRTUAL: An Evening with Journalist Adam Brookes, Author of Fragile Cargo: China’s Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City

Discover the little-known story of the curators who packed, evacuated, and conserved the Chinese imperial art collections to protect them from the Japanese invasion during the Second World War. Join the library on Thursday, February 16 at 7 p.m. for a live, virtual streaming event with journalist Adam Brookes, who will discuss his new book, Fragile Cargo: China’s Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City. Publisher’s Weekly opines, “Art lovers and WWII buffs will devour this riveting and bittersweet history.”