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The Great Chinese Art Heist
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The Great Chinese Art Heist
I asked him what he had heard about the theft and the rumor that the stolen relics had made their way back to China.
In 2000, the same year as Poly Culture's founding, Poly managed to buy back three of the Old Summer Palace's zodiac heads.
In China, the memory of the Old Summer Palace's destruction remains vivid—and intentionally so.
In 2010, a 16-inch Chinese vase went up for sale at an auction house in an unremarkable suburb of London.
The Great Chinese Art Heist
The palace held an array of wonders, not the least of which was a fountain adorned with 12 bronze heads representing the animals of the Chinese zodiac.
We were sitting at a large conference table high up in the company's Beijing headquarters, with a view of the smog-drenched skyline.
When I met him at his office in Beijing, he had just returned from an expedition in western China, where he'd reached the top of the world's sixth-tallest mountain.
Many of the country's nouveau riche have taken to art collecting with a giddy enthusiasm.
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