China Begins Campaign To Recover Art Looted In Opium Wars
"China is to send a team of artefact hunters to … scour museums, libraries and private collections in Britain, the US, France, Japan and elsewhere to photograph and catalogue what was taken from the Yuan Ming Yuan, popularly known as the Old Summer Palace, after British and French armies sacked it in 1860." The Times (UK) 10/20/09

Posted October 21, 2009 09:52 PM