Auction Houses in China: Christie’s vs. PLA
Licensed to operate in mainland China earlier this year, the auction house Christie’s has...
Sep 28, 2013
Licensed to operate in mainland China earlier this year, the auction house Christie’s has...
Jun 28, 2013
Two ancient bronze animal head sculptures looted from the Summer Palace during the Second Opium War were returned to China in accordance with the offer businessman François-Henri Pinault made during his visit to the country...
Apr 28, 2013
Two zodiac sculptures stolen from the Old Summer Palace by British and French troops in 1860 will return to China later this year. The animal heads, cast in the mid-18th Century, inspired a set of replicas by artist Ai Weiwei...
Dec 17, 2010
The Summer Palace in Winter, by Philip Barnaart
Apr 12, 2005
From China Daily Online: It’s not proving to be a good year so far for the Old Summer Palace in northwestern Beijing. First, lakes at the key tourist destination were covered with plastic covering aimed at preventing water seeping away. That outraged environmentalists who said the underground water supply will suffer.