For those of you still interested in the current upheaval surrounding the ongoing Chinese visitation to US and European museums, you should check out THIS piece that I wrote for SAFECORNER. Post your comments here, or there, or anywhere as they are always appreciated. …and Happy Holidays!
Archive for December, 2009
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Posted in China, cultural heritage, looting, Lost Cultural Relics Recovery Program, Ongoing, Opinions, tagged SAFECORNER on 26/12/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reactions to the Chinese mission to inspect Chinese antiquities in foreign museum collections
Posted in China, cultural heritage, Different Perspectives, looting, Lost Cultural Relics Recovery Program, News Articles of Interest, Ongoing, Opinions, Uncategorized, tagged America, Britain, Cultural Relics, debate, Europe, looting, Museums, New York Times, Public Opinions, The Telegraph on 18/12/2009 | 1 Comment »
Reactions and comments on two articles that have recently come out, one in the British newspaper, The Telegraph, and the other just today in the New York Times have garnerd a great deal of public opinion. Trolling the comments pages is fascinating because it allows us to guage how the general public feels about these [...]
Update on the 800 year old merchant vessel excavation in Guangdong
Posted in Archaeology, Chinese Archaeology, News Articles of Interest, Ongoing, tagged Merchant Vessel, Ming Dynasty, Museum Opening, Underwater Archaeology on 10/12/2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you recall THIS post on this blog several months ago, you’ll remember that China has recently been funding a full-scale excavation of a submerged Ming dynasty merchant vessel that sank off of the coast of Guangdong nearly 800 years ago. Well, on December 3rd, Xinhuanet posted that over 2,000 visitors turned up to the [...]
[Quickie] FASCINATING project by the Chinese
Posted in China, General, looting, Lost Cultural Relics Recovery Program, News Articles of Interest, Ongoing, tagged British Museum, looting, Lost Cultural Relics Recovery Program, reacquisition, Victoria and Albert Museum on 04/12/2009 | Leave a Comment »
So there has been information floating around recently that the Chinese are taking their recent preoccupation with reacquiring previously looted antiquities (called the Lost Cultural Relics Recovery Program) to a whole new playing field, and have gained access to the British Museum, as well as the Victoria and Albert Museum in order to inspect their [...]
“Chinese reactions to auction of stolen bronze relics” [repost from ChinaSMACK]
Posted in China, cultural heritage, Different Perspectives, looting, Lost Cultural Relics Recovery Program, News Articles of Interest, Ongoing, Opinions, Rants, tagged auction, ChinaSMACK, Christie's, comments, nationalism, Old Summer Palace, patrimony, Reactions on 10/12/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just found THIS article published in February on popular Chinese popnews website ChinaSMACK about the Christie’s auction of two of the now pretty well known bronze zodiac animal heads that were looted from Beijing’s Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) during the 1860s by the British and French armies. The article is interesting for several reasons. First, [...]
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