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The Voice Of Looted TreasuresGorgeous Victorian building,can not be where I belong; All the 200 years, I keep thinking my unforgettable hometown. By guns and cannons, they shipped me to a strange country; My body and soul, always wanna fly back to continue my legacy. Facing western visitors reminds me of their ancestors' fierce looting; Hearing familiar voice occasionally sends me an air of homesickness Hundreds of years, I kept dreaming the same dream; One day, I will be back to savor the home melody … |
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National treasures scattered after several robberiesIn August 1860, the Anglo-French Allied Forces plundered the cultural relics of the Old Summer Palace. In 1900 the Palace was again looted by Eight-Power Allied Forces invaders.After the Xinhai Revolution, many warlords, bureaucrats and politicians stole cultural relics from the Palace in order to build their private villas.
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Trace Old Summer Palace's relics to overseas museumsChina will send an expert team to trace and document relics taken from the Old Summer Palace that are now in foreign countries, a park official said Sunday.China obtains 7 Old Summer Palace picturesThe pictures, shot by an American photographer around 1918, can make up incomplete historical information to a certain extent. Now, the administrative office of the Old Summer Palace is authorized to use these pictures from Duke University in the United States.
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China: Just search for the cultural relics, not recover"We just search for the looted cultural relics, but do not recover them"British Museum: Willing to talk to Chinese expertsVictoria Benjamin, spokesman for The British Museum, said they were aware of what the Old Summer Palace is doing now, but so far they have not received any direct contact.
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