Jades' worrying truth
China Daily | Updated: 2011-09-13 08:27
ALL OF A SUDDEN, IT SEEMS ACADEMIC FREEDOM has become a justification for the malfeasance of cultural relics experts.
Along with four other experts, Yang Boda, former deputy curator of the Palace Museum in Beijing, determined that two items of jade clothing sewn with gold threads were authentic antiques and slapped a price tag of 2.4 billion yuan ($376 million) on them.
The two items were later found to be fakes.
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