Taiwan museum rejects looted Chinese relics

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(AFP) – 1 day ago


TAIPEI — Taiwan's National Palace Museum on Wednesday ruled out accepting looted relics, after a celebrity French collector reportedly said that his offer to donate two controversial animal heads had been turned down.
"In accordance with professional museum ethics, we can't collect disputed artefacts," said Chou Kung-shin, director of the museum which boasts the world's largest collection of classical Chinese art.
The two bronze heads, stolen from China 150 years ago, were the subject of an auction house drama earlier this year when a Chinese collector won a bid for them but subsequently refused to pay, placing the deal in limbo.
Pierre Berge, partner of late French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, said he offered the two heads -- of a rat and a rabbit -- to a Taiwan museum, but was rejected because the museum feared triggering Chinese anger.
"I wanted to give them to the Taiwan museum, but they didn't want to create a bone of contention... with mainland China," Berge told French radio station RTL in a programme aired on Monday.
Berge did not name the museum, but Taiwan's Liberty Times on Wednesday quoted the National Palace Museum as saying it turned down the gift because "the artefacts didn't fit its collections."
The museum later clarified, saying it was never approached by Berge but would turn down the offer for that reason if it ever were, according to the newspaper.
The museum's director Chou reiterated her position on rejecting looted artefacts at a parliamentary session on Wednesday, provoking criticism from lawmakers.
"The museum is spineless. (Berge) wants to give the relics to you and you won't even accept?" said Lee Ching-hua, a lawmaker from the ruling Kuomintang party.
The National Museum of History, another leading Taiwanese museum, is "very willing to accept" the relics, its director Huang Yung-chuan told reporters on Wednesday.
The two bronzes were stolen by British and French forces from Beijing at the end of the Second Opium War in 1860.
They later became part of the collection of Saint Laurent and Berge, and sold for 15.7 million euros (23 million dollars) each at the Christie's auction in Paris in March.
Authorities in Beijing had repeatedly called for the sale not to go ahead and said the relics should be returned to China.
A Chinese art collector admitted he was the bidder but said he had no intention of paying the money.


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[kensington]

Those angmohs are already half successful in sowing discord amongst the Chinese.

It is smart of the Taiwanese Museum to reject these stolen and pillaged goods.

See what they will come up next ? Remember, angmohs are one very perfidious race.

The Great Walls and the Pyramids were too big to be carted away or else they will be in London, Paris and New York today, Bwahahaha...

 

[longbow]

Couple years back, Beijing controlled companies were buying up all these "relics' being sold on the international arts markets. Might have been a wrong strategy as it drove up prices creating even more demand.

Maybe another way to is apply political pressure and say that item was stolen (most are) and destroy the market. After all no point in collecting something if you cannot enjoy it with others.

Those angmohs are already half successful in sowing discord amongst the Chinese.

It is smart of the Taiwanese Museum to reject these stolen and pillaged goods.

See what they will come up next ? Remember, angmohs are one very perfidious race.

The Great Walls and the Pyramids were too big to be carted away or else they will be in London, Paris and New York today, Bwahahaha...

 

[SamuelStalin]

Authorities in Beijing had repeatedly called for the sale not to go ahead and said the relics should be returned to China.
A Chinese art collector admitted he was the bidder but said he had no intention of paying the money.

That's Chinese unity and patriotism ladies and gentlemen. Anyway, the French is trying to pit China and Taiwan against each other by deliberately choosing to "return" the two Chinese artifacts to the latter instead.

These smelly French who bathe less than 5 times in their artsy fartsy lives should followed Yves into hell. They can get down and dirty there for all they want.

 

[SamuelStalin]

Those angmohs are already half successful in sowing discord amongst the Chinese.

It is smart of the Taiwanese Museum to reject these stolen and pillaged goods.

See what they will come up next ? Remember, angmohs are one very perfidious race.

The Great Walls and the Pyramids were too big to be carted away or else they will be in London, Paris and New York today, Bwahahaha...

This is why the rfid microchip initiative initiated by the Rothschilds in Europe and the Rockefellers in America must be carried forward and inserted into all of these Western viruses and diseases.

Death to those who disagree, or they be chipped with them.

 

[limpeh2]

That's Chinese unity and patriotism ladies and gentlemen. Anyway, the French is trying to pit China and Taiwan against each other by deliberately choosing to "return" the two Chinese artifacts to the latter instead.

These smelly French who bathe less than 5 times in their artsy fartsy lives should followed Yves into hell. They can get down and dirty there for all they want.

A big FAIL for those disgusting warbling paedophiles.
While for these paedo angmo apes, political subterfuge & intrigue is a pretty new, 300-400 year-old gimmick since the western 'renaissance', we have been at it for thousands of years.

 

[SamuelStalin]

A big FAIL for those disgusting warbling paedophiles.
While for these paedo angmo apes, political subterfuge & intrigue is a pretty new, 300-400 year-old gimmick since the western 'renaissance', we have been at it for thousands of years.

Exactly dude. These palefaces really think the world of themselves.

Since the Renaissance isn't it weird that in Europe the idea of man over God was propagated and became a form of greater acceptance there despite them burning witches and torturing people and burning their books on account of heresy and being heretics? And usury was prohibited by their Bible, yet, moneylenders, banks and loansharks all flourished in their world.

China fell into the Western trap (China socialist and Taiwan democrat dispute) because the then ruling power, the Qing Dynasty, was useless and so they were weak in the face of foreign invasion then. But now they are picking up the pieces and are slowly recovering and trying to get back at the West.

When it becomes China's turn to play the real political game with the West in return... well, as we all gleefully watch a magnificent display of art on the side all we can say to our Western friends is, good luck.