Documenting the past key to repatriation
By Qin Zhongwei | China Daily | Updated: 2010-03-11 07:53
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Ruins of the Old Summer Palace. Xie Zhengyi / For China Daily |
Although Chen Mingjie, director of the Yuanmingyuan Administrative Office, has said on various occasions that the team of eight historians and experts on cultural relics protection who visited the United States last December were on a scholarly trip, it was still interpreted by the domestic and foreign media as a hunt for treasures looted from the Old Summer Palace.
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