Detail: This is one of four exhibitions as part of `China in Dresden in China' during 2008 following an intensive dialogue over many years between the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and renowned Chinese cultural institutions. Jointly curated by staff of the Palace Museum of the Forbidden City and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, this exhibition features around 250 top-quality objects from the Palace Museum in Beijing alongside treasures from the Saxon-Polish court reflect the displays of power and prestige. Six sections under the headings `images and power', `festivals', `the imperial household', `courtly arts and sciences' and `politics and diplomacy' further contrast the historic `control centres' of two different cultures.