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 »
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, 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 [...]
Mt. Wutai added to UNESCO World Heritage List
Posted in China, News Articles of Interest, Preservation, UNESCO, World Heritage, World Heritage Sites, cultural heritage, tagged Buddhist Temples, Dresden Elbe Valley, Ming Dynasty, Mt. Wutai, Nomination, Shanxi Province, Shuxian Temple, Tang Dynasty, UNESCO, World Heritage List on 28/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A short announcement came out on the 24th of June that China was nominating 2 sites to UNESCO’s World Heritage List in an attempt to replace Germany’s Dresden Elbe Valley, which was removed due to construction of a bridge in the centre of the valley.
Yesterday, Xinhua.net announced that Mt. Wutai was successfully inscribed on [...]
Zhoukoudian Locality 1 in danger of collapse!
Posted in Archaeology, China, News Articles of Interest, Preservation, Rescue/Salvage Archaeology, World Heritage Sites, tagged Archaeology, Boston University, Collapse, destruction, Erosion, Excavation, Fire, Hominids, Locality 1, Micromorphology, Paleoanthropology, Paul Goldberg, Peking Man, Rescue, Salvation, World Heritage Site, Zhoukoudian on 25/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A news article came out today that rescue excavations will commence immediately at the Zhoukoudian Cave Site that is located 50 kilometers SW of Beijing.
According to the report, the excavation will last for 4 months, and is intended not only to shore up a large fracture that has appeared on the ceiling of the cave [...]
800 Year Old Merchant Wreck to be “Excavated”
Posted in Archaeology, Chinese Archaeology, News Articles of Interest, cultural heritage, tagged Excavation, Guangdong, Law, Marine, Museum, Silk Road, Underwater Archaeology on 22/06/2009 | 1 Comment »
On June 21st, China announced that a 3-5 year plan for excavating and studying the remains of a shipwrecked merchant vessel dating to the Song Dynasty shall commence shortly.
The vessel, known as Nanhai No. 1 was a merchant trading vessel that sank off the coast of Guangdong Province.
In 2007, it was successfully pulled from the [...]
[BELATED UPDATE] Terra Cotta Warriors to be excavated for a third time.
Posted in Archaeology, China, News Articles of Interest, Preservation, World Heritage Sites, tagged Excavation, Mausoleum, Preservation, Qin Shihuang, Shaanxi Province, Terracotta Warriors, Tomb, World Heritage Site, Xian on 15/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A June 10th news post on Xinhua.net has announced that a third excavation shall begin this weekend at the world-famous Qin Terra Cotta Warriors site near the ancient capital of Xian in Shaanxi Province, China. The site is a recognized UNESCO World Heritage Site, which means that it fulfills UNESCO’s criteria for being a shining [...]
Intangible Cultural Heritage Expo Opens in Chengdu, Sichuan
Posted in General, News Articles of Interest, cultural heritage, tagged Chengdu, Embroidery, Exposition, intangible cultural heritage, Shu, Sichuan Province, UNESCO on 09/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, June 9th, 2009, an Intangible Cultural Heritage Exposition opened in the City of Chengdu in Sichuan Province in the southwestern portion of China showing cultural displays from around the country.
For those unfamiliar with the terminology, Intangible Cultural Heritage is defined by UNESCO as:
“…the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments, [...]
“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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