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The Meat-Shaped Stone

How a humble cabbage became one of the Forbidden City’s most memorable treasures

By Wayne Chang, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — The Louvre’s “Mona Lisa,” the British Museum’s Rosetta Stone, MoMA’s “Starry Night” — major museums often have one must-see item that singlehandedly draws visitors from around the world. For the National Palace Museum, in Taiwan’s capital Taipei, the star attraction is somewhat humbler: a cabbage. Carved from

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