Check it out!

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!

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Reactions to the Chinese mission to inspect Chinese antiquities in foreign museum collections

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 [...]

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“Chinese reactions to auction of stolen bronze relics” [repost from ChinaSMACK]

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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[Quickie] FASCINATING project by the Chinese

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 [...]

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