Maxwell K. Hearn, Douglas Dillon Curator in Charge of the Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art delivers the Keynote Address “East Asia and the Encyclopedic Art Museum: Chinese and Japanese Art at the Metropolitan Museum” for the symposium ‘The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in America’ organized by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection, March 15-16, 2012.