Li, a businessman in his 80s...
grew up in Latin America, the son of a Chinese ambassador who served in Brazil and other Latin American countries.
He learned of the Met’s ambitions to expand its holdings from a brother living in New York City, who sent him an article about the museum’s 2015 purchase of the “Crown of the Andes”, a 17th-18th-century emerald-studded gold crown, which the museum called “an anchor for the development of a new area of collection”.
Li decided to help.
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