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 issues, [...]
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Reactions to the Chinese mission to inspect Chinese antiquities in foreign museum collections
Posted in China, Different Perspectives, Lost Cultural Relics Recovery Program, News Articles of Interest, Ongoing, Opinions, cultural heritage, looting, tagged America, Britain, Cultural Relics, debate, Europe, looting, Museums, New York Times, Public Opinions, The Telegraph on 18/12/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check this out!
Posted in Academic, Archaeology, Different Perspectives, News Articles of Interest, Off-topic, Opinions, looting, tagged grassroots, Iraq, looting, Mali, New York Times, Peru, Roger Atwood, stealing history on 13/10/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check out THIS article that was posted in the New York Times this morning about grassroots organizations against looting in Peru, Mali, and Iraq.
It’s a little off topic from the usual fare on this blog, but I think its worthwhile to examine what people in other countries are doing about archaeological site looting.
Plus, the article [...]
Official Statement from the archaeological community regarding the ongoing destruction of Old Kashgar
Posted in Different Perspectives, Opinions, Preservation, UNESCO, World Heritage, World Heritage Sites, tagged destruction, Francesco Bandarin, Kashgar, Letter of Concern, Nomination, Silk Road, UNESCO, World Heritage, World Heritage Centre, World Heritage Sites on 20/07/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, the official statement of concern about the ongoing demolition of Old Kashgar was released by SAFE (Saving Antiquities for Everyone). It can be found HERE.
The letter is addressed to Mr. Francesco Bandarin, the director of UNESCO World Heritage based in Paris, France, which is in charge of the nomination of World Heritage sites around [...]
Uigher Protests in Urumqi and their Potential Influence on the Archaeological Heritage of the Region
Posted in China, Different Perspectives, General, Opinions, Preservation, Rants, World Heritage, tagged Central Asia, cultural heritage, destruction, Kashgar, Xinjiang, Uighur, Old Town, Urumqi, Ethnic Clashes, Archaeological Heritage on 11/07/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Most of you should be aware, by now, of the protests against ethnic discrimination and religious intolerance that are currently going on in Urumqi, the capital city of the Chinese province of Xinjiang.
My question is: what, if any, reprocussions does this have on the cultural heritage of the area? specifically, the ongoing demolition of the [...]
ICOMOS Letter to PRC
Posted in Different Perspectives, Opinions, Preservation, World Heritage, tagged Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center, ICOMOS, ISCEAH, Kashar, letter on 07/07/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of days ago, an open letter addressed to the government of the PRC was posted on the Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center’s website. Check it out HERE.
It was written by the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Earthen Architectural Heritage (ISCEAH), and is in regards to the ongoing demolition of Kashgar’s Old Town. Some [...]
Even more SAVE KASHGAR Facebook and Petition Initiatives
Posted in Different Perspectives, Preservation, World Heritage Sites, cultural heritage, tagged Facebook, Initiative, Kashgar, Petition, SAFE, UNESCO, World Heritage on 25/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just got wind of yet another set of initiatives aimed at garnering attention and awareness of the ongoing demolition of Old Kashgar that has been in the news lately (if you’ve been paying attention to the side headlines in your national newspaper).
HERE is yet another “SAVE KASHGAR” Facebook group that posts some interesting events coming [...]
For those of you who read Chinese
Posted in China, Different Perspectives, Opinions, Preservation, World Heritage Sites, tagged conservation, debate, looting, Mausoleum, Preservation, Qinshihuang, Terracotta Warriors, Tomb on 23/06/2009 | 2 Comments »
For anyone who can read Chinese (simplified), or who wants to practice their Chinese, HERE is an interesting article from www.popyard.org, a popular Chinese news website that discusses whether or not the Tomb of Qinshihuang should be excavated.
The famous mausoleum of Qinshihuang, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty (221 B.C. – 206 B.C.), has [...]
Kashgar Archaeology with Paul Barford
Posted in Different Perspectives, Opinions, Rants, tagged Archaeological Community, Kashgar, Reactions on 04/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is another blog post about the Kashgar situation from Paul Barford, a British archaeologist currently living and working Warsaw Poland.
Just in case you want some more scathing reactions to the Kashgar situation from the archaeological community.
Kudos for pointing out the hypocrisy.
“Chinese reactions to auction of stolen bronze relics” [repost from ChinaSMACK]
Posted in China, Different Perspectives, Lost Cultural Relics Recovery Program, News Articles of Interest, Ongoing, Opinions, Rants, cultural heritage, looting, 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, it [...]
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