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Buying Back China’s Lost Art Treasures - Anthony Kuhn

From National Public Radio (link):

Chinese collectors and corporations are using their new wealth to buy back some of the thousands of China’s art treasures that have been lost overseas, plundered in war and stolen by tomb robbers. One company has made this its specialty: the Poly Corporation, which started as an arms trading branch of China’s military.

• Posted by Sophie Beach
• February 24, 2006 7:36 AM
• Category: Culture
• Tags: antiquities, art exports, art theft

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