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 »
[Quickie] FASCINATING project by the Chinese
Posted in China, General, Lost Cultural Relics Recovery Program, News Articles of Interest, Ongoing, looting, 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 [...]
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 [...]
“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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