January 22, 2010
Progress on tracking down artefacts looted from Beijing’s Yuanmingyuan
Following China’s plans to track down artefacts looted from Beijing’s Summer Palace, the first reports are now coming back of positive identifications of artefacts. What remains to be seen though is whether China is going to take any sort of action to retrieve any of them.
From:
China Daily
Experts track relics from old palace
By Lin Shujuan (China Daily)
Updated: 2010-01-19 07:47Painting dates back to Song Dynasty in Boston Museum: expert
China has recovered significant records of the Old Summer Palace from a recent effort to trace and document relics taken from the garden that are now in foreign countries, a park official said yesterday.
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