In a report entitled "China's Patrimony," published not long after the exhibition opened at the Met, the New York Times described it as "an invitation to banish politics from the mind and put art in its place."
紐約時報在瑰寶展出後不久，即刊出一名為「中國文化遺產」的報導，稱這次展覽是一項「將政治拋諸腦後，以藝術取而代之」的邀約。