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China Daily | Updated: 2014-09-18 07:01

Major cultural property returned in recent years

2013

French businessman Francois-Henri Pinault donated bronze rabbit and rat head statues to China, which were taken by British-French expeditionary forces from the Old Summer Palace in Beijing during the Second Opium War (1856-1860).

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