Anyone Fancy A Chinese Takeaway?


Christie's recently outraged the Chinese authorities with the sale of two bronze animal heads looted from Beijing over a hundred years ago. Jackie Chan called it shameful and plans to make a movie about the recovery of Chinese art treasures. And right they are too, after all it's wrong to steal something from a nation. If your going to steal some cultural icon's don't mess around with a few statue's, do what the Chinese did and steal the entire country. Hey, Tibet must have thousands of sacred statues lying about, I'm sure Sothebies would be only too happy to cut a deal and sell them on to the highest bidder. Then there are 2 million Tibetans. I'm sure there are modern slavers that'd want a piece of that action.

Alternatively the Chinese could be given back their animal tat and the Tibetans could be given back their country and their spiritual leader. A rabbit and a rat for a Lama sounds like a great art deal to me. Especially as the latter is an original Dali.

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Löst Jimmy said…
Excellent post George!

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