Hong Kong Museum of Art

This guide to the Hong Kong Museum of Art follows Low Chuck-tiew, a Shanghai-trained collector who watched centuries of Chinese scroll paintings and calligraphy flood the city's postwar antique markets on their way out of the country, and quietly began buying up works by Ming and Qing masters to keep them from leaving. It traces the collection he named Xubaizhai and what he chose to do with it in 1989, rather than sell it on. Spend time in the Xubaizhai Gallery reading the scrolls he gathered one by one over decades.