The Art and Archaeological Delegation which visited the People's Republic ofChina in November of 1973 was jointly sponsored by the National Academy ofSciences of the United States and the Scientific and Technical Associationof the PRC. Originally intended to be chiefly archaeological, the delegationultimately included specialists in Chinese painting, a historian and aconservationist as well as those of us more immediately concerned with“underground art” or recent archaeological finds (see List 1).