Owner to pay up over fake artwork

The owner of the popular nightclub The World of Suzie Wong has been ordered to pay 35,000 yuan in compensation to a sculptor after using the image of a fake artwork in an advertisement.

The nightclub will also be forced to publicly apologize to artist Li Xiangqun, a sculptor and professor at the Academy of Art and Design of Tsinghua University.

At the center of the case is Li's sculpture of the half-naked empress Ci Xi of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), which was exhibited at the Third Beijing International Art Biennial on July 8, 2008.