China's lost art

The World
The World
According to reports in the state press, China will send a team of experts around the world to catalog cultural relics it claims were looted from Beijing's Old Summer Palace by European armies at the end of the 19th century. The World's Alex Gallafent looks at an episode many Chinese regard as one of the most humiliating in their history.
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